Limagrain UK is marking its 60th anniversary with a strong line-up at Cereals 2025, showcasing new cereal and oilseed rape varieties bred for resilience, flexibility, and performance in changing UK conditions.

Heather Oldfield, Cereals and Pulses Product Manager, highlights two new Group 4 hard wheats, LG Defiance and LG Challenger, Candidates for this year’s AHDB Recommended List. “These wheats offer excellent disease resistance and high specific weights, showcasing our new direction in multi-gene resistance profiling,” says Ms Oldfield. “They’ve looked outstanding in the ground and in seed multiplication crops.”

Visitors will also see top-performing two-row winter barleys: LG Capital and LG Caravelle. “LG Capital, recommended last year, has shown yields up to 10 t/ha in the East and North,” she adds. “Strong disease resistance and consistent grain quality help growers manage risk in unpredictable seasons.”

Limagrain is also exploring future crop options as UK climate patterns shift. “We're improving genetics and trialling break crops like peas, beans, OSR CSFB resilience, and sunflowers to find viable, sustainable options for UK growers,” she adds.

On the oilseed rape side, Florentina Petrescu, Oilseed Rape Product Manager, introduces three newly recommended hybrids: LG Adapt, Magelan, and LG Avenger. LG Avenger is the first LG variety to include cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) resilience — a novel genetic trait developed to reduce pest damage at key stages.

“This forms part of an integrated pest management (IPM) approach,” she says. “Combined with strategies like moisture conservation, drilling timing, and companion cropping, it gives growers a much-needed edge in re-establishing successful OSR crops.”