Written by Daisy Bury from CPM Magazine
Download PDF Modern technologies are opening the door for plant breeding to play an increasingly important role in bringing much-needed extra environmental stability to oilseed rape growing. CPM explores some of the latest genetic thinking to answer this...
Written by cpm from CPM Magazine
Download PDF There’s an extra layer of care that goes into managing the oilseed rape grown by McGregor Farms on the Scottish Borders. CPM visits and gathers updates on its 2022 on-farm trials to glean the secrets of building yield potential. These aren’t...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Download PDF As the oilseed rape market begins to make a recovery, there’s a new variety on the horizon which seeks to combine output with ‘yield-protecting’ characteristics. CPM discovers DK Expose. I think it’s going to tick a lot of boxes. By...
Dekalb News
In the final article in our series, DEKALB trials manager, Anders Christensen pulls together harvest data from the companys UK research network to assess how key varieties have performed where it matters.
Wide performance variations reflect challenging season
Ive been pleasantly...
DEKALB'S Clearfield Quality Check Scheme
The DEKALB Clearfield Quality Check Scheme brings together rigorous breeding quality standards, effective volunteer and cruciferous weed control capabilities and advanced pre-movement analytic services.
It is available free of charge to all growers who...
Exceptional OSR performance in Cumbria
At Shaw Hill Farm, Kirkbride close to the Solway Firth in Cumbria, JG & DE Hodgson have enjoyed their most productive oilseed rape year ever, from 34ha of DK Exception combined in the nick of time before the August rain brought harvest to a two-week halt...
Dekalb News
In the final article in our series, DEKALB trials manager, Anders Christensen pulls together harvest data from the companys UK research network to assess how key varieties have performed where it matters.
Wide performance variations reflect challenging season
Ive been pleasantly...
DEKALB'S Clearfield Quality Check Scheme
The DEKALB Clearfield Quality Check Scheme brings together rigorous breeding quality standards, effective volunteer and cruciferous weed control capabilities and advanced pre-movement analytic services.
It is available free of charge to all growers who...
Exceptional OSR performance in Cumbria
At Shaw Hill Farm, Kirkbride close to the Solway Firth in Cumbria, JG & DE Hodgson have enjoyed their most productive oilseed rape year ever, from 34ha of DK Exception combined in the nick of time before the August rain brought harvest to a two-week halt...
Dekalb News
In the final article in our series, DEKALB trials manager, Anders Christensen pulls together harvest data from the companys UK research network to assess how key varieties have performed where it matters.
Wide performance variations reflect challenging season
Ive been pleasantly...
DEKALB'S Clearfield Quality Check Scheme
The DEKALB Clearfield Quality Check Scheme brings together rigorous breeding quality standards, effective volunteer and cruciferous weed control capabilities and advanced pre-movement analytic services.
It is available free of charge to all growers who...
Exceptional OSR performance in Cumbria
At Shaw Hill Farm, Kirkbride close to the Solway Firth in Cumbria, JG & DE Hodgson have enjoyed their most productive oilseed rape year ever, from 34ha of DK Exception combined in the nick of time before the August rain brought harvest to a two-week halt...
Written by cpm
As oilseed rape continues to fight for its place in the rotation, improved genetics may encourage growers to be more confident in how it could perform. CPM reviews Dekalb’s latest TuYV resistant variety, DK Excited. Growers want to buy assurance. By Charlotte Cunningham AHDB’s...
40 years since I kept 36 hybid layers.
At the timer Shaver 585's, Warren Sl's & Thornbers were popular oh & Babcocks. 285 eggs per annum was the target, I got less because I did not have lighting & the beggars eventually learnt to eat the eggs.
Visually they look similar now, egg colour is...
Written by cpm
Download PDF With just over 60% on the national oilseed rape crop making it to harvest, a multipronged strategy will give the crop its best chance and varietal choice is one just part of the puzzle. CPM talks to DeKalb about the characteristics of hybrids and how these may help...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Growers of Dekalb hybrid OSR varieties which fail to establish this autumn will be credited with £100/bag under the enhanced Establishment Scheme introduced by Bayer for 2020. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Building on the initiative piloted last autumn, the 2020...
Written by cpm
While OSR crops across the country struggle in the battle against CSFB, Dekalb has been focusing on breeding even more resilience into its varieties to give growers the best chance against the yield-robbing pest. CPM reviews DK Exstar. DK Exstar combines high yields and oil...
Hi all
I know oilseed rape is a bit of a dirty word at the moment, and cabbage stem flea beetle even more so, but we are doing a survey to see if we can get a good picture of what tactics are being used to "combat" CSFB during both establishment and for the larval stage, and to see just what...
Exceptional OSR performance in Cumbria
At Shaw Hill Farm, Kirkbride close to the Solway Firth in Cumbria, JG & DE Hodgson have enjoyed their most productive oilseed rape year ever, from 34ha of DK Exception combined in the nick of time before the August rain brought harvest to a two-week halt...