Essex family team wins top milling wheat award

摘要

Father-and-son team Stephen and James Perry won the top prize to be the leading milling wheat farmers at harvest 2019, with a strategy based on the timely application of inputs and helped by favourable weather.The Essex growers scooped the top award in a milling quality challenge, with a crop of Zyatt winter wheat yielding 12.6t/ha and a grain protein content just shy of 14%.Stephen says they have spent the past 20 years specialising in breadmaking wheats, as their relatively small farming and contracting operation gives them the flexibility to be focused on timely crop inputs.