Articles for Variety Tilbury F1
Tilbury outstanding packouts
This week Wim van der Heijden who is the product manager for onions at Nickerson-Zwaan, the Neterhlands visited New Zealand. Wim visited growers packing and... more...
Lincoln Onion Trial
The onion variety trial sown early in September 2006, on the property of Greg & Sue Tucker, on the outskirts of Lincoln is progressing well. ... more...
Tilbury impressive again in Pukekohe
Growers in Pukekohe have started to lift their crops of Tilbury onions and is receiving some rave reviews. When compared with other varieties, Tilbury has... more...
Tilbury Mid Growth
The fields of Tilbury were today growing very well in the Hastings district. The plantings of Tilbury in the district are well and performing well... more...
Tilbury Growing Well
The commercial plantings of Tilbury F1 onions are progressing well. The variety is showing strong vigour at the 4th leaf stage. In some fields the... more...
Onion Trials in The Netherlands
Today I visited the field trials of new varieties being bred by Nickerson Zwaan at their research station in the North of The Netherlands. Onion... more...
Leading plant breeder visits New Zealand
Nickerson-Zwaans brassica breeding team leader Jan-Leendert Harrewijn; made a flying visit to New Zealand to view brassica and onion development trials and meet with a... more...
Onion trials sent to The Netherlands
New Zealand exports the majority of its onion production, much of this to the UK and Europe. Part of our on going research program has... more...
Packing Tilbury Onions
Today in Christchurch we packed the Tilbury onions produced at our trial site in Lincoln. The onions packed out a high percentage of class 1... more...
Onion trial field update
Top fall at the Vigour onion research site at Lincoln. Our one acre intermediate day length onion trial has finished off nicely. There has been... more...
Tilbury in Mid Canterbury
A large field of Tilbury onions are just about to be lifted in the Mid Canterbury, this planting of more than 10 hectares of Tilbury... more...
Tilbury in Pendarves
It is almost time to lift a large field of Tilbury onions in Pendarves, Rakaia district. Despite a severe herbicide check, this planting of more... more...
Tilbury conquers Pukekohe
This season Vigour conducted 5 field trials of Tilbury in the Pukekohe region with sowings in the first 2 weeks of August. For the past... more...
Jumbo sized Tilbury in Hastings
Hastings has managed to produce a very large and consistent size of Tilbury onion from these early - mid August sowings. Sowing at rates around... more...