Peas performing well despite dry season

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COMBINING peas have done well this harvest considering the very dry season, says the PGRO.

In Essex, marrowfats have averaged 3.75t/ha and the colour is said to be excellent.

While there has been some bleaching with the blues, the white peas are of excellent quality, with 5t/ha regularly achieved.

Peas have also done well in Cambridgeshire, and James Wallace of Daltons reports generally good performance: “The most obvious feature is that the new varieties have stood better than ever and combining has been so much easier.

Potential

“With average yields exceeding 4t/ha, new varieties are really showing their potential,” he says.

Phil Rix of Dunns says: “We have a good lot of peas and they have done surprisingly well in view of the late frost and dry spring, with yields around 5t/ha and very good quality.”

The two PGRO Recommended List variety trials at Thornhaugh and Chatteris in Cambridgeshire, have been harvested and PGRO principal technical officer Steve Belcher says, despite the dry season, yields on the limestone soil at Thornhaugh have been above average and excellent for the year.

“All varieties have stood well right up to harvest, while at the trial site at Chatteris, massive yields exceeding 6.5t/ha have been achieved,” he says.

“The full potential of combining peas has been realised this year and, although there are still crops in the west and north to cut, there is a lot of optimism for peas,” says PGRO technical director, Dr Anthony Biddle.

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