b"THE ALL NEW COLOUR SORTER is often a lack of clarity and accountability when it comes to who is responsible for advancing these varieties in the market, he says. Seed companies want to be proactive, but they cant take all the risks and bear all the costs associated with advancing SPECTRAVISION a new variety. It must be a collaborative effort involving end 1-306-244-2285 users, grain companies and research organizations, Watts adds.canseedequip.com To facilitate this collaboration, the Canadian Malting sales@canseedequip.com Barley Technical Centre established the New Variety Acceptance Committee, which is made up primarily of end users who provide their assessment of a new variety and its pros and cons. The committee also provides an indication of seed requirements for the following year for commercial testing. The process involves a lot of information sharing, with the Western Canadian Field Trials serving as an extension of the collabora-tive trial process for evaluating new varieties across the Prairies.Many FactorsThe brewing industry is constantly trying to innovate and improve the taste of their beer. One way they do this is by experimenting with new varieties of barley. However, its not as simple as just using a new variety of barley in a batch of beer. The brewing companies have tasting panels and other testing methods to ensure that the new variety has a flavour profile Improved Performance Connectivity Ease-of-use that will blend well with the beer they are trying to produce, An all new optical sorter Control and view your machine No technical skills explains Doug Munro, North American merchandising man-delivering up to 50% higher reject performance from required for operation.concentrations. anywhere in the world, in line with ager for Boortmalt, one of the worlds leading malting compa-Industry 4.0 standards.The new SORTEX H SpectraVision has been developed using the best of Swiss and British engineering know-how. nies with a 3 million tonnes production capacity.As the result of Buhler's 75 years of extensive experience in optical sorting, it offers the above 3 key benefits.AWB_Germination-June2023.pdf 1 2023-06-06 5:13:01 PM Once a brewer is interested in a new variety, they will use it to make a few batches of beer. But the maltster often has leftover malt that they need to move. This can be challenging because many brewers have specific blends that they use, and they can't just add a new variety, he says. To speed up the process of testing new barley varieties, malt companies anonymously share the results of their tests with other companies. This allows them to compare the results and see how the new variety performs. The newer varieties of barley are gaining popularity among farmers, but they dont have the market acceptance that AAC Synergy has. The yield on these newer varieties is just as good, C but farmers may be hesitant to switch to them due to the lack M of market acceptance, Munro explains. Y Still, new varieties eventually break through. Theres a generational change happening in the barley CM market. AC Metcalfe was an old variety that was being phased MY out, and CDC Copeland is not much younger. Similar changes CY happened years ago when CDC Harrington was pushed out in CMY favour of new varieties, Munro says. Currently, Connect and Fraser are gaining popularity, although Connect may have a K slight advantage due to being in the market a few years earlier.Newer varieties with superior fusarium resistance could also become big winners in the market as well, he notes. Watch an episode of Seed Speaks related to this topic on our website!germination.ca/seed-speaks-malting-barley34GERMINATION.CASEPTEMBER 2023"