Holdfast wheat grain is a pale variety popularly grown during the Second World War. This Cambridge white-chaffed, beardless wheat variety was released in 1936, a cross between Yeoman and Canadian White Fife, setting the standard for bread-making quality grain for the next 50 years.
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Holdfast wheat grain is a pale variety popularly grown during the Second World War. This Cambridge white-chaffed, beardless wheat variety was released in 1936, a cross between Yeoman and Canadian White Fife, setting the standard for bread-making quality grain for the next 50 years.Â
It has improvements over its predecessors for yield and disease resistance and became a very popular home-grown high yielding bread wheat during the Second World War as it has excellent milling and baking qualities.(Bell 1948)
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