Written by Tom Allen-Stevens
A new conventional oilseed rape variety showing barn-filling yield potential has enjoyed a strong uptake by growers in its first commercial year, despite failing to make it onto the 2018/19 AHDB Recommended List. Django was sown across 20,000ha for the 2008 harvest – around 4% of the UK certified OSR seed area – reports KWS. The variety is up for consideration for RL status again this year. Django’s performance in National List trials showed the new variety offers good yield and stem stiffness, which is what KWS attributes to its relatively high uptake. “[This is] a rare achievement for a variety still to receive recommendation,” says the breeder. Django is a conventional OSR variety. It beat all other varieties in the 2017 RL trial, including hybrids and other conventional types, with a UK-wide average yield of 106% of controls. “Its yield potential will be what captured growers’ attention, but it is its easy-to-manage versatility on farm that will truly endear it to growers,” says KWS. With a stem stiffness score of 9, it is the shortest non-semi dwarf variety in trials. This suggests seed rates can be manipulated at sowing to reflect seedbed conditions and pest pressures without fear of…
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