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Download PDF With the future of oilseed rape on tenterhooks, the NFU unveiled an ambitious policy at this year’s NFU Conference that would see Defra underwrite up to 80% of growers’ costs. CPM delved deeper into what exactly this could mean for the industry. There’s a perfect storm being created because the industry is being undercut. By Charlotte Cunningham and Tom Allen-Stevens Since the ban on neonics, the UK area of oilseed rape has progressively fallen year on year. What’s more, following an epidemic of cabbage stem flea beetle last year, many growers are choosing to move away from the crop this year— leaving some saying that the future of the crop is now at crisis point. This was reflected in the recent AHDB Early Bird survey which revealed that the UK forecast area is down 32% on 2019, and could pose a real threat to production, explains Chloe Lockhart, combinable crops advisor at the NFU. “In the best case scenario, OSR production is pegged at 1.2M tonnes — which is still 500,000t below last year. “In the worst case, and incorporating spring losses, we’re looking at a total crop of just shy of 900,000t.” In a bid to bring…
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