Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Investing in biostimulants has helped one Hants farmer to continue to include oilseed rape in his rotation, despite a tricky few years. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Establishing oilseed rape is not easy. Growers are often faced with the dilemma of whether to continue to invest in a crop or cut their losses and abandon it. This was the stark decision facing Al Brooks, estate director of Faccombe Estates in North Hampshire last year, when, as a final throw of the dice he applied the biostimulants Bridgeway/Zonda, to his drought-stricken crop. This single application of biostimulants not only gave him a viable crop to go into the winter, it was also responsible for one field growing on to yield over 5 t/ha. Al said: “The cropped area on the estate is divided in two and is walked by Steve Cook from Hampshire Arable Systems and Andrew Richards from Agrii. Last year oilseed rape establishment was definitely not ideal, it was so variable and slow that I had to be persuaded by my agronomists not to spray it out and start again. Thankfully I didn’t, because a single application of Bridgeway on one part of the farm and sister product Zonda on the…
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