The following is a guide to the preferred varieties for storage at Weald Granary. Others can be accommodated but it is of assistance to the store operation if the number of varieties is kept to a minimum.     Group 1 Miller’s reliance, particularly in the larger mills producing flour for the ‘industrial’ baking market such as the Tilbury mills, is on the wane. Malacca and Hereward still dominate the market and are accepted by all millers. Xi19 has a more limited market but does have significant yield advantages.     Group 2 Cordiale: Has displaced Soissons with one of the national millers. Like Soissons an early maturing variety that also has good export demand. Solstice: Popular with most millers, some treating as a group 1. Also seeing useful export demand. Einstein: Has found surprising favour with some millers but the main market in Kent is likely to remain export. We have developed some useful demand this season, particularly to the near continent. Whichever market protein is not crucial and premiums will be slim. Our recommendation is therefore not to push for 13% protein by application of late nitrogen.   Other Group 2s Exsept has similar markets to Einstein. Soissons is becoming significantly outclassed in yield terms, with millers now moving on to alternatives the time has come to move on to other varieties, Cordiale being the obvious replacement.   Group 3 Claire/Robigus are the mainstay varieties, both are acceptable for export which is the dominant market in Kent. Robigus though is not universally accepted by UK millers, perhaps though that’s just a matter of time. It is important to note that hagberg and specific weight are crucial to the export demand. Min specification is 220 hagberg and 75 kg/hl.     Group 4 All current Group 4 varieties (Alchemy/Brompton/Richmond) have little use other than as feed in Kent