The AHDB Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) publications and resources provide information on yield and quality performance, agronomic features and market options to assist with variety selection.
Booklet
Download the RL 2025/26 booklet
Online tables
View the latest online tables on the crop-specific pages, which also feature the latest harvest results. The next edition (RL 2026/27) will be available from 1 December 2025.
Other crops (descriptive lists)
Variety highlights
Yellow rust ratings 2026/27
We have published the winter wheat yellow rust ratings for RL 2026/27 earlier than usual. It follows highly unusual levels of the disease in some winter wheat varieties during 2025 and the confirmation that a major disease resistance gene has been overcome. Some varieties have lost as many as five rating points.
RL app
Adding value to the online tables and booklet, our RL app provides a powerful and pint-sized way to deliver variety data to your fingertips.
Variety selection tool
Use the variety selection tool to navigate RL trial data, make comparisons and identify the most promising varieties for your unique situation.
RL review
Find out about the RL review and how it will help to improve the variety trialling project.
RL interactive tool
This is an interactive version of the tables published as part of the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL). Use it to identify varieties that meet your specific market, yield, disease resistance, agronomic and quality requirements.
Please sign in before using the tool.
Understanding and using the RL
What are the types of list? What does ‘scope of recommendation’ mean? How are yields and disease ratings calculated? Our 'using the RL' page answers these questions (and more) to help you get the most out of the lists.
RL project and protocols
Produced each year, the RL publications are based on the analysis of hundreds of UK trials conducted across several years. Explore our 'project and protocols' page for information on the trials and the decision-making process, including the reasons for adding and removing varieties from RL.
Varieties and genetics research
Learn how AHDB supports pre-breeding research to help deliver novel and improved traits to the varieties of the future.
RL winter wheat on trial
Discover how we grow one of the UK’s most complex winter wheat crops, from deciding which varieties to sow to recommendation decisions.
RL strategy
We want the RL to feature varieties that help all businesses – from farmers to end users – maintain and improve the productivity and competitiveness of the UK grain supply chain. However, RL users are diverse, the production environment is changing, and the budget is limited. Find out how our five-year strategy aims to maintain the delivery of relevant, independent variety data.
RL harvest results and commentary
Access the latest information from the RL trials, including sowing lists and harvest data, and sign up to harvest results – our e-newsletter sent out regularly during harvest.
RL news
RL videos
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