AAC Prairie barley

AAC Prairie is a hulled two-row spring malting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivar widely adapted to western Canada. It was developed from the cross CDC Kindersley/TR08204 made in 2008 and it was evaluated in the Western Cooperative Two-row Barley Registration Test (2017-2018) as well as the Collaborative Malting Barley Trials (2018-2019) conducted by the malting and brewing industry before being registered in 2021. AAC Prairie’s good combination of agronomic and disease resistance traits as well as a desired malting quality profile, should make it a useful cultivar for the barley industry.