The American Malting Barley Association has released its list of recommended varieties for the coming year. The additions to the list include CDC Churchill and Firefox. CDC Churchill is a two-row hulled malting barley variety developed by the University of Saskatchewan. Firefox is also a two-row hulled variety. It was developed in Europe and tested in North Dakota over the past four years. One variety was removed from the list; a six-row variety called Quest that was developed by the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in 2010. It fell off the list with the transition to two-row varieties.
