BTS 1915 is the highest yielding variety available with consistently high seasonal yield performance.
This variety provides an opportunity for growers who want to take the next step-up in yields. In doing so they are raising the bar in sugar beet production even higher, making themselves more resilient against the costs of producing a sugar beet crop.
High adjusted tonnes: Treated 107.3% Untreated 108.4%
BTS 1915 has moderate resistance to powdery and downy mildew, plus good rust resistance, ensuring its suitability for later harvesting dates. Sow BTS 1915 in the normal and late sowing period. This variety is unsuitable for sowing before mid-March, as indicated by the X on the Recommended List.
Breeders Comment:
“BTS 1915 continues to show very high yield potential with an exceptional 4.6% yield advantage over its nearest competitor and 7.3% over the mean of the treated control on the sugar beet Recommended List.
Equally impressive is its performance in untreated trials, yielding 3.5% over its nearest competitor BTS 5770 and 8.4% over the mean of the control. “We normally expect to see year-on-year yield advances of 1 to 2% in yields, so BTS 1915 is something special, especially considering many other arable crop yields have plateaued.
Nor is it a one-year wonder performance. These extremely high yields have been consistent over all the seasons tested in UK official trials”
