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Download PDF Improving oilseed rape performance isn’t necessarily about rapid or radical change. Indeed, as CPM finds out from two growers at opposite ends of the country, sustained progress is more about steadily doing things even better. Success with OSR is all about getting the crop away rapidly and reliably. By Rob Jones The Scholes family on the Yorks Wolds and Richard Budd on the Weald of Kent grow oilseed rape in very different situations, on very different soils and with very different systems. But their approaches to improvement are remarkably similar. Both have focussed their efforts over the past 10 years on better understanding the crop and its needs; exploring what works and doesn’t work in making the most of it under their own circumstances; and continually developing their regimes to build on the former while minimising the latter. Andy Murr and Rachel Scholes have brought in over-the-weighbridge yields as high as 6.5t/ha from their silty loam with chalk ground. Across the 100-120 ha of OSR grown annually at Fimber Nab Farm near Driffield and on a variety of local contracts, five-year average yields are running at 4.25t/ha. What’s more, manager Andy Murr and Rachel Scholes – who runs…
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