UK Bread Demand

"A NEW Defra LINK project is seeking to enable bakers to produce good quality bread using the maximum amount of sustainably-produced UK organic wheat.

More than 50 per cent of the wheat required for the UK organic bread market is imported, because the domestic crop does not consistently provide flour that meets the needs of the organic baking sector.

Field trials with different spring wheat varieties at three sites are assessing the effects on grain quality of appropriate approaches to soil fertility management."

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