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No one doubts it’s been a challenging year for oilseed rape. Openfield, however, has applied its resources to pull out positive lessons to draw from it. CPM gets exclusive insight. This year in particular, farmers will be facing a tough choice on OSR. By Tom Allen-Stevens Whether you grow oilseed rape for next harvest may depend on how badly you were burnt by the crop this year. Lee Bennett, Openfield’s head of seeds business, is keen to see that growers dress the wound properly and put their scars into perspective when considering what to put into the ground for harvest 2020. “How deep is the wound?” he asks. “Some growers were singed, while others suffered first degree burns. But even in the absence of cabbage stem flea beetle last autumn, many crops were put into a seedbed with insufficient moisture. Some of the deepest wounds were suffered by those who had a good crop before Christmas, just to see it destroyed by CSFB larvae in the spring – could this have been avoided?” Openfield combines knowledge in seed sales with that of its grain-marketing team to offer growers a unique outlook on prospects for the OSR crop. Lee freely…
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