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Download PDF Spring wheat is generally considered a poor entry for oilseed rape, but determined to address problems with blackgrass and cabbage stem flea beetle, One Cambs family business has made it work. CPM visits to find out how. You need a variety which will get up quick and get going in the late slot. By Tom Allen-Stevens As the last of the seed pours into the hopper, the freshening breeze picks up the bag and turns it into a windsock that thrashes helplessly on the loader fork, as if signalling a change of weather. Rain is indeed forecast, and Will Gee is keen to push on and establish what he can of the KWS Colchise spring wheat into the Grade 2 Fenland silts at Thorney, east of Peterborough, Cambs. The crop is being drilled a good month earlier than last year, and it’s part of a rotation that’s both addressing the farm’s blackgrass problem and allowing the oilseed rape crop to steer a path away from cabbage stem flea beetle damage. The spring cultivations leave a good friable tilth for the autumn OSR crop. “The spring wheat is grown for seed, which locks in a premium. But being later…
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