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HGCA Planting and Variety Surveys see significant increases to wheat and barley area for harvest '08. Total wheat area is estimated at 2.07M ha, up 14%. Spring barley area is 0.57M ha (up 14%), winter barley is 0.42M ha (up 10%), giving total barley area of 0.98M ha, up 12%. Oilseed rape area is 0.590M ha, 13% below '07 (incl OSR grown on set-aside) Set-aside area is down 46% compared to 2007 (excl OSR grown on SAS). Around 15% wheat was planted to Group 1 varieties, unchanged on '07. Group 2 account for 16% (19% in '07), Group 3 make up 23% (32% in '07) and Group 4 on 37% of the total area (27% in '07). Malting barley varieties were planted on 72% of the total area (68% in '07).
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