United Kingdom
November 27, 2025
Speaking immediately following the launch of the new PGRO Descriptive List (DL), Tom Yewbrey, Managing Director of NPZ UK, commented: “We have three new varieties – Maderas LVC spring bean, Bullet Green pea and Yoshi Marrowfat pea – added to our strong portfolio of DL Recommended spring bean and combining pea varieties that deliver high, reliable yields with strong vigour, disease resistance, and agronomic resilience, alongside proven end-user appeal.
“For spring beans, Lynx has become the well-established variety for both growers and end users as consistently high yielding with high Downy mildew resistance and high standing power. Just next to Lynx in the DL yield table is Genius, with high seed yield and offering growers a large sized bean plus excellent agronomic characters, including high standing ability. Loki is the NPZ UK spring bean variety with a good yield and a set of equally good agronomics.
“We are very strong in the increasingly important LVC sector (low vicine/convicine) that will help to further develop the UK pulse market with end users to the long term benefit of growers. Ketu is a very high yielding LVC bean, along with Futura and newcomer Maderas, to give our set of varieties in this developing category.”
“Turning to combining peas, we have Pangea as a top yielding green pea along with Carrington, Butterfly and Bluetime. These are now joined by Bullet, a new high yielding variety.
“Pangea combines very high yield with high resistance to Powdery mildew, high Downy mildew resistance and – like all current NPZ UK combining pea varieties – Pangea is resistant to Pea wilt.
“Carrington is a high yielding variety with very high Downy mildew resistance; Butterfly is a high yielding variety with early maturity; Bluetime is high yielding combined with a high Downy mildew resistance. All three have good standing power.
“The yellow pea category features two high yielding NPZ UK varieties – Concerto, with high resistance to Downy mildew, and Orchestra.
“For Marrowfats three NPZ UK varieties – very high yielding Midori plus Akooma and Takayama – are now joined by newcomer top-yielding Yoshi to give a comprehensive choice to growers in this market segment.”
“With consistent performance on the PGRO DL, our pulse varieties continue to set the benchmark for quality and performance across the industry. Looking to the future, we have a range of promising field bean and combining pea varieties in the pipeline to do our part in developing the UK pulse crop,” adds Mr Yewbrey
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