Sienna

Excellent specific weight

  • Market Options: Malt distilling & feed
  • MBC Approval: Formerly MBC approved

Sienna offers an excellent specific weight, combined with low screenings and high hot water extract – traits desired by the malting industry.

Sienna is medium in height, offering good resistance to lodging and brackling. It has a good disease resistance profile, backed up by its high untreated grain yield in trials.

Sienna exhibits many of the positive traits associated with the feed variety Westminster, offering livestock farmers a higher yielding alternative. Sienna has competitive yields in all regions.

Strengths

  • Formally MBC approved for malt distilling

  • Extremely high specific weight

  • High tillering with relatively long straw

Technical Information

Yield (% Treated Controls)

Treated YieldSIENNAPropino
UK9895
East9694
West9896
North9995
Untreated Yield9082

Agronomic and Quality Data

SIENNAPropino
Specific Weight (kg/hl)70.268.1
Screenings (% through 2.25mm)1.81.0
Screenings (% through 2.5mm)4.22.2
Nitrogen (%)-1.60
Hot Water Extract (l deg/kg)-311.1
Lodging Resistance (No PGR)77
Height (cm) No PGR7775
Ripening (days +/- Concerto)+10
Resistance to Brackling78

Disease Resistance

SIENNAPropino
Mildew96
Brown Rust55
Rhynchosporium55
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Sienna

Excellent specific weight

Sienna offers an excellent specific weight, combined with low screenings and high hot water extract – traits desired by the malting industry.

Sienna is medium in height, offering good resistance to lodging and brackling. It has a good disease resistance profile, backed up by its high untreated grain yield in trials.

Sienna exhibits many of the positive traits associated with the feed variety Westminster, offering livestock farmers a higher yielding alternative. Sienna has competitive yields in all regions.

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Key Strengths

  • Formally MBC approved for malt distilling

  • Extremely high specific weight

  • High tillering with relatively long straw

Technical Information

Yield (% Treated Controls)

Treated YieldSIENNAPropino
UK9895
East9694
West9896
North9995
Untreated Yield9082

All data is from the AHDB Recommended Lists 2021/22 database. See AHDB website for full dataset.

Agronomic and Quality Data

SIENNAPropino
Specific Weight (kg/hl)70.268.1
Screenings (% through 2.25mm)1.81.0
Screenings (% through 2.5mm)4.22.2
Nitrogen (%)-1.60
Hot Water Extract (l deg/kg)-311.1
Lodging Resistance (No PGR)77
Height (cm) No PGR7775
Ripening (days +/- Concerto)+10
Resistance to Brackling78

All data is from the AHDB Recommended Lists 2021/22 database. See AHDB website for full dataset. On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

Disease Resistance

SIENNAPropino
Mildew96
Brown Rust55
Rhynchosporium55

All data is from the AHDB Recommended Lists 2021/22 database. See AHDB website for full dataset. On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

What Our Experts Say

CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

Sienna spring barley
“I was delighted with how the variety performed. The volume of straw that came off the field was excellent, I make 4.5-5ft bales and we were getting 8 bales/acre!”
Dairy Farmer, Cupar, Scotland

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