This feature demonstrates the improvement in quality and performance of home-grown bread-making wheat varieties through the decades. The varieties, largely linked by pedigree, highlight the contribution of domestic plant breeding programmes in reversing the UK’s historical dependence on imported North American milling wheat.
Varieties included in the Innovation Farm demonstration site:
- April bearded (1900s)
- Squareheads Master (1930s)
- Capelle Desprez (1950s)
- Maris Widgeon (1964)
- Hobbit (1989)
- Moulin (1985)
- Little Joss (1910)
- Hereward (1989)
- Solstice (2002)
