Benchmarking and ‘big data’ could be increasingly important for arable margins
Benchmarking of crop performance plus use of big data to identify farming practices that deliver…
Browsing: Oilseeds
Boost bonuses with high oil content OSR varieties
With lack of profitability a concern for many UK arable producers, squeezing every drop of…
Elsoms’ agricultural trial sites selected for open events across the Eastern region
Independently hosted open events at key Elsoms’ trial sites across the Eastern region offer an…
Use OSR genetics to reduce risk and protect yield
Making OSR variety choices based on the conditions in which they are to be grown…
Clearfield – a reliable and practical way of growing winter oilseed rape
Oilseed rape growers and agronomists quiz experts about several aspects of growing oilseed rape. One…
Pod protection to stop larvae losses
With most oilseed rape well through flowering, growers should now be on the lookout for…
Sclerotinia risk not just confined to forward crops
OSR plots tested in Herefordshire, Wales and the south west have revealed that between 80-100%…
Sclerotinia alert in oilseed rape
Varied establishment of oilseed rape (OSR) crops last Autumn, is likely to have resulted in…
Mentor only variety on 2017/18 RL for East/West and North resistant to common strains of clubroot
Clubroot is an increasing problem in oilseed rape crops throughout the UK, and has been…
Bayer pollen beetle bulletin no. 5
With forward crops well in to flowering the focus shifts to backward crops. Forward crops…