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Download PDF 2020 was an incredibly difficult year for OSR growers, which was largely blamed on cabbage stem flea beetle. However, new research indicates the causal factor may actually have been something quite different. CPM finds out more. Perhaps it could be worth persevering with OSR? By Charlotte Cunningham If working out the key suspect responsible for the massive loss of oilseed rape yields last year was a game of Cluedo, it would go a little something like … “it was the cabbage stem flea beetle, with a very hungry appetite, in the early growth stages.” However, though the pesky flea beetle has been the main suspect for the past few years, new research from BASF and ADAS has shown that the real yield killer may perhaps have gone slightly undetected. New research has shown that the weather was the causal factor of 2020’s poor OSR yields BASF have had a long-standing relationship with ADAS, helping to fund valuable research into the key components of OSR yield, and the factors that can influence it, in a bid to drive better management of the crop on farm, explains Clare Tucker, business development manager BASF. “One of the pieces of work we…
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