• Alchemy is a high-yielding soft-milling Group 4 feed wheat variety which remains very popular, taking around 17% of the provisional 2007 certified seed production.

• Has performed well in a range of sowing dates and soil types.

•  Provisionally classified as uks soft wheat for export. Low W means it is only suitable for blending into uks export cargoes.

• Rated as "moderate" for distilling.

• A slow developing variety, useful for early drilling.

• Good resistance to yellow rust and Septoria nodorum and above average resistance to mildew.

• One of a group of varieties - Alchemy, Claire, Deben, Istabraq and Zebedee -which are now moderately susceptible to a race of brown rust that has become widespread.

• Very high untreated yield.

• Breeder/ UK Agent: Nickerson (www.nickersonseeds.co.uk ).

Page updated November 2007.