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Download PDF Wilts grower Martin Smart has come back into on-farm oilseed rape trials, growing just Clearfield varieties. CPM visits to engage in some canopy-gazing. At the later timing it was vigour that made all the difference. By Tom Allen-Stevens Arriving at the entrance to the field, carefully mapped and precisely located, there’s a Landrover, a dog, but no sign of Martin Smart. There is, however, a very gratifying crop of oilseed rape. As you look over the field, with its last remaining scatter of yellow, the pods are setting, and it has that table-top finish that suggests it’ll be gratifying at harvest, too. Then a cap appears above the canopy, with a grin and a cheery welcome. “I was just taking a look at how the canopy’s coming together in this crop. I think we could have a potential YEN award winner here,” says the cap. Beneath it is Martin, who eventually emerges from the crop and explains that to get a true picture of the canopy, you have to take a photo from the ground looking up to the sky, or better still, lie under the canopy and look up. “This field and the one opposite are both…
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Download PDF Wilts grower Martin Smart has come back into on-farm oilseed rape trials, growing just Clearfield varieties. CPM visits to engage in some canopy-gazing. At the later timing it was vigour that made all the difference. By Tom Allen-Stevens Arriving at the entrance to the field, carefully mapped and precisely located, there’s a Landrover, a dog, but no sign of Martin Smart. There is, however, a very gratifying crop of oilseed rape. As you look over the field, with its last remaining scatter of yellow, the pods are setting, and it has that table-top finish that suggests it’ll be gratifying at harvest, too. Then a cap appears above the canopy, with a grin and a cheery welcome. “I was just taking a look at how the canopy’s coming together in this crop. I think we could have a potential YEN award winner here,” says the cap. Beneath it is Martin, who eventually emerges from the crop and explains that to get a true picture of the canopy, you have to take a photo from the ground looking up to the sky, or better still, lie under the canopy and look up. “This field and the one opposite are both…
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