HGCA Recommended Lists are run by Crop Evaluation Ltd, an independent company owned by HGCA and managed by all stakeholders involved in the Lists. Varieties are added to the Lists when they are considered to have the potential to provide a consistent economic benefit to the whole industry.
Winter wheat
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended List
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Spring wheat
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
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Late autumn sown wheat
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Archive Recommended Lists: 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Winter oilseed rape
Recommended lists
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Extract variety performance data relevant to your farm
Spring oilseed rape
Descriptive list
Harvest results
Spring linseed
Descriptive list
Harvest results
Archive Recommended lists: 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Archive harvest results: 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Winter barley
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Extract variety performance data relevant to your farm
Spring barley
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Extract variety performance data relevant to your farm
Archive Recommended lists: 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Archive harvest results: 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Winter oats
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Extract variety performance data relevant to your farm
Spring oats
Recommended list
Harvest results
Trials and candidates
Interactive Recommended list
Extract variety performance data relevant to your farm
Archive Recommended lists: 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Archive harvest results: 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003
Winter triticale
Descriptive list
Harvest results
Winter rye
Descriptive list
Harvest results
Each year HGCA invests around 13% of its total levy income to assessing varieties for the HGCA Recommended Lists.
The HGCA Recommended Lists are run on behalf of HGCA by an independent company Crop Evaluation Ltd, which is owned by HGCA but managed by all stakeholders in the Recommended List.
For more details about Crop Evaluation click here
For recent Crop Evaluation Board minutes click here
Organisations from across the whole industry are involved in producing the HGCA Recommended Lists.
Acknowledgement is also made of the contribution of DEFRA and plant breeders through their payments for National List trials and tests, and to BSPB members for significant additional data made available from their co-ordinated trial series.
HGCA is grateful to all organisations involved for their support and co-operation.
For supporting organisations and companies click here.
The data provided on these pages are the intellectual property of Crop Evaluation Ltd and its associates.
Crop Evaluation and AHDB/HGCA seek to ensure that the data provided are accurate. However, subject to the operation of law no liability is accepted for loss, damage or injury howsoever caused or suffered directly or indirectly in relation to information and opinions contained in or omitted from these pages.
These data are provided for the purpose of determining the choice of varieties for planting and for no other purpose without the written agreement of Crop Evaluation Ltd. The information must not be published without the express written agreement of Crop Evaluation Ltd except for printing copies for personal use. © 2010 AHDB
RL candidate tables
Tables showing data for the new Recommended List candidate varieties are now available for the following varieties:
Would you like to select which varieties are sown in HGCA Recommended List trials and help decide which varieties are added to the Recommended List? HGCA currently has vacancies on several of its crop committees.
Click here to find out more.

RL Plus helps you to choose UK cereals and oilseeds varieties which best suit your needs, farming systems and location.
RL Plus holds data from over 2,000 trials and allows comparisons between varieties for more than a dozen characteristics.
RL Plus has been updated with the interactive HGCA Recommended Lists for 2009/10 and now includes 2008 trials results.