We concentrate our plant Breeding efforts in our Winter Bean programme which was purchased in its entirety from Monsanto in 1999.

We have carried on with the traditional breeding methods pioneered by PBI C and ensure that the maintenance of all of our established and new lines follows strict guidelines to ensure that purity and inbreeding is to the highest standard.

Beans are sown in the Autumn and caged protection is placed around them in early Spring.

Insect resistant netting is placed over the cages prior to flowering, to ensure pollination with a certain type of Bee, is only carried out under controlled conditions.

We constantly thrive to improve the performance of our lines through improved agronomics and quality, frequently taking advice from end users. Established varieties in the UK offer consistant performance levels therefore an improvement on the existing plant module is now being achieved with increasing success. New lines are now coming to the forefront of this work and will soon make their presence known on farms.

One such new attribute we have been able to bring on is improved grain quality with potential for food use in the export trade. This is demonstrated below.

Pale skin, larger seeded - new type

Traditional darker skin type

We have extensive on going trials work screening our advanced lines and testing their durability at different locations in the UK.

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