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🌧️ 2024: Drilled April 25
☀️ 2025: Drilled March 17
The season is off to a flying start, with our spring barley variety trials site at Beal Farm in Northumberland drilled four weeks earlier than last year due to some fine spring weather 🚜💨
More this week 👀➡️
🌾 Plump spring barley grains
👍 No blind sites
🚜 Winter barley harvest is underway
In case you missed it, check out the most recent update of the season from our spring barley variety trials 👇
https://t.co/cCSAhVM5fX
Curious about how our spring barley varieties are progressing? 🤔
In our latest video update, Agrochemical & Technical Director David Cairns chats about the differences in maturity and yield between the varieties 🌾
Watch the full video 📽️👉 https://t.co/5MMY9XUjTs
Golden Promise ❤️
As Plant Variety Rights holders of this heritage barley variety since 2015, we know a thing or two about it and how it has become - and remains - a beloved base malt 🤩
Read the Golden Promise story 👉 https://t.co/O6Ze1ZCRcB
The UK is renowned for its high-quality malting barley 🌾
There are three key reasons behind that:
▶️ Weather
▶️ Length of the growing season
▶️ Terroir
In this blog, Technical Director of UK Brewing Sales Jamie Ramshaw explains more 👉 https://t.co/PqgyOCPEVq
Harvest is here... 🌾
The first loads of winter barley have started to arrive at our malting and grain storage sites across the UK 📍
That means it's all systems go for the next few months, with around 350,000 tonnes of malting barley set to be delivered into our stores 🚛
Great team effort today! Made a start on WB Pearl 🌾 for @SimpsonsMalt, coming in at 16.5% , time will tell yield wise. 2nd cut silage ☘️ also done and dusted ✅! Harvest definitely going to be staggered with mixed desiccation dates.
Unifying and scaling the final few recipes for the book, which has been a very time consuming labour of love. Really excited to have this one in there...
Here comes the 🌞
In the latest update from our spring barley trials site, @MSPAgronomy chats about accelerating crop growth, continued disease prevention and other goings on the @msandpltd trading area 🗣️
Full video 👉 https://t.co/buU2gVTEUu
We’d like to extend our thanks to all growers who attended on the night and you can find out more about our agricultural division here 👇
https://t.co/WjHizBLmqk
Wild about wheat 🌾
Although most of our operation revolves around the procurement of malting barley and its processing into malt, by having @MSandPltd built into our business, it also allows us to procure, store and trade other cereals and pulses, including distilling wheat 🥃
At the event, our seed and agronomy team showcased the 16 varieties at the site, highlighting their agronomic and market strengths and weaknesses – as well as advising on sowing times, crop protection and seed treatments – to inform growers' variety choices for harvest 2025 ⏭️
Incredibly proud to have my first article published by @BrewJournal, in which I write about the fantastic work @SimpsonsMalt does in sustainably sourcing Barley and turning it into world class malt.
🌱 Good root structures
😖 Rhynchosporium + cleaver issues
☀️ The need for warmth (it's here now 😀)
🤞 Winter barley optimism
In case you missed it, check out the second update from our spring barley variety trials of the season 👇
https://t.co/1uL6CU873G
The growing season isn't getting much easier for farmers across the UK 🌧️
But in the second update of the season, Agrochemical & Technical Director David Cairns shows us that there is light at the end of the tunnel 🔦
Watch the full video 📽️👉 https://t.co/zjIFfynDKm