Australia: Laperouse gets malting barley accreditation

Grains Australia has accredited the variety Laperouse as a malting barley, Grain Central reported on May 16.

It was submitted by SECOBRA Research and Seednet, and was accredited as malting barley following evaluation by the Grains Australia Malting and Brewing Industry Barley Technical Committee.

Laperouse was developed by SECOBRA Recherches after being bred by the University of Adelaide with
support from the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

Its pedigree includes Commander and Waite Institute coded breeding lines, and it is being marketed as

As the final remaining variety under evaluation in Stage Two for 2024, this now completes assessment for the 2024 malt accreditation program.

It follows AGT�s Cyclops and InterGrain�s Neo CL as having being approved by Grains Australia in recent months as a malting variety.

Laperouse is a medium to high-fermentability variety best suited to medium-rainfall regions across Australia.

It is being marketed to growers as having a low incidence of net blotch leaf disease, as well as a high retention rate over a 2.5mm screen, and a high test weight, with 71.8kg per hectolitre averaged over South Australian National Variety Trial sites in 2023-24.

Laperouse is available through Seednet.

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