Cordiale

Early maturing Cordiale is firmly established as the UK’s most consistent breadmaking wheat, producing the goods year-in-year-out whatever the harvest weather.  

Premium Group 2 Favourite

Universally accepted and highly sought after for use in a wide range of breadmaking grists, Cordiale is one of the UK’s leading milling varieties.

Often attracting ‘best in class’ premiums, it produces a consistent and proven high quality flour compared to other breadmaking wheats.

	Protein (%)	Hagberg	Specific Weight (kg/hl)
Cordiale	12.2	301	79.3
Panorama	11.6	248	77.6
Solstice	12.0	256	77.9
Gallant	12.0	295	77.6

Data source: HGCA Recommended List, 2011/12

The Only Consistent Breadwinner…

Cordiale is commercially proven and highly sought after by the miller.  Intake data from one of the UK’s leading grain businesses, Openfield, clearly demonstrates the strong performance of Cordiale.

Across 11,000t of Cordiale marketed by Openfield in the post-harvest period in 2010, Cordiale’s highly acceptable proteins and reliably strong 300-plus Hagbergs and 78.5kg/hl specific weights, make it a key variety in the breadmaking sector.

 

	Total Sample Tonnage (t)	Average Protein (%)	Average HFN	Average Specific Weight (kg/hl)
Cordiale	113,267	12.65	311	78.5
Solstice	210,928	12.88	283	77.8
Panorama	4,532	12.05	259	76.9

Sample Data – Harvest 2010. Data source: Openfield 

As the UK’s largest independent miller, ADM has benefitted from Cordiale’s reliable performance across a range of growing conditions and harvest years. 

As a result, the variety is fully approved by ADM which views it as the top quality Group 2 wheat for use across a wide range of their flour grades.

ADM has successfully increased their volume of Cordiale through merchant buy back contracts, thus securing a consistent supply of the variety.  These buy back contracts also demonstrate their support for growers who are increasing their focus on producing wheat for specific end processor markets.   

“Cordiale’s early maturity and early harvestability, combined with its ability to hang on to its Hagberg, has been crucial to maintaining a good supply of quality wheat in recent years,” says ADM Milling’s trading manager, Mark Ringrose.

Crop Husbandry

Cordiale can be drilled from mid-September onwards and is a well-established top-performer planted late after beet.

	Cordiale
Mildew	6
Yellow rust	6
Brown rust	3
S. nodorum	5
S. tritici	5
Eyespot	5
Fusarium	6

Data source: HGCA Recommended List, 2011/12

Cordiale responds to a comprehensive fungicide programme. Early development in the spring means that spray dates may need to be earlier than for some other varieties.

This is backed by a double-8 ranking for standing power with and without PGRs, helping retain harvest quality when combining is delayed.

Nitrogen response trials show that Cordiale is one of the most efficient varieties at converting nitrogen into protein ensuring a large proportion of samples achieve full milling specifications; Openfield on-farm data – see charts above - support this.

Cordiale is resistant to soil borne wheat mosaic virus.

Cordiale is susceptible to chlorotoluron.