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Winter Hardiness Trials in Lublin, Poland

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Are you looking for a solution to evaluate your seed materials in dry freeze conditions? Do you want to check if your candidate biostimulant product improve cereal tolerance to frost?

We can perform winter hardiness trials in the region of Lublin in eastern Poland. The facility has dry freeze capacity and, as the seasonal cold and frosty weather lasts for an extended period, we are able to remove snow if we have heavy snowfall.

Please send any requests for the upcoming winter season to seedservices@eurofins.com by mid-August 2022.

Usually barley is sown during the first week of September, with wheat and triticale sown 10 days later, timings are:

  • By August 30th: send Barley seeds dispatched in the cassette cells
  • By September 5th: send Wheat and Triticale seeds dispatched in the cassette cells

A complete service offer

  • Our local team manage the field preparation, crop management, trial design, fencing, labelling
  • Drilling: we are equipped with a single row seeder Haldrup SD-50 type, 6 rows of 1.25m track width
    • In-plot, we can sow 1 or 2 or 6 rows x 1.2m length. We typically use 12 chamber magazines
  • Assessments: we typically conduct a plant emergence score, an after Winter counting and restart green in Spring. For biostimulant trials, we include a yield assessment and postharvest analyses
  • Biostimulants: we can perform seed treatment, in furrow and broadcast spray applications
  • Crops: barley, wheat and triticale are available in 2022 and we will extend to oilseed rape in 2023
  • Protocol can be adapted to your specific requirements

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