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News
2005 News Releases
September 2005 - September-Sown OSR Success. Don't worry if cereal harvesting delays mean your oilseed rape still hasn't been drilled.
July 29, 2005 - Combining Caracas proves easy in Essex. Richard Speakman has been bringing in 320ha (790 acres) of oilseed rape in Essex, and it has been a mixed experience.
July 2005 - First New Generation Hybrid OSR Offers Exceptional Output and Manageability. The first in a new generation of hybrid oilseed rape varieties which promise to hold as much appeal for conventional as for committed hybrid growers has been launched by UK market leader, Monsanto this spring.
July 2005 - Keeping it Simple in Shopshire. At Home Farm, Lilleshall, Shropshire grower Robert Timmis appreciates the value of low biomass oilseed rape as much for its reliability and ease of management as for its earning potential.
July 2005 - Market Leaders Join Forces In OSR Harvesting Partnership. The UK's leading oilseed rape breeder, Monsanto and the country's Number One combine supplier, Claas UK have pooled their expertise in a special partnership dedicated to improving oilseed rape harvesting by providing best practice advice on all aspects of the process.
July 2005 - Growing OSR Disease Risk Warning. This season is set to sound a timely warning to English growers over the danger of increasing the proportion of oilseed rape in national rotation too markedly.
July 2005 - West Midlands Growers Profit From Low Biomass OSR. Easy-to-manage, low biomass oilseed rape is taking-off across the West Midlands, having proved its worth handsomely for growers under last year's less-than-ideal harvesting conditions, reports leading Shropshire-based agribusiness, Wynnstay plc.
July 2005 - Easy does it with OSR. Easy-to-manage, low biomass oilseed rape really proved its worth last season, giving growers a vital edge in coping with less-than-ideal harvesting conditions, while bringing the extra costs and hassle involved in growing taller, less manageable types into stark focus.
July 2005 - Meeting Changing Needs in Lincolnshire. Low biomass oilseed rape has fitted-in especially well with John Lucas' low cost approach to rape growing at Welbourn Farm between Lincoln and Grantham over the past three years.
July 2005 - Cereals 2005 Launch Heralds Hybrid Revival. The decline in the popularity of hybrid oilseed rape across the UK over the past five years is set to be reversed over the coming few seasons as new high output/high manageability types attract a growing following with conventional variety as well as committe hybrid growers.
July 2005 - Precision Pays with OSR. Manage your winter oilseed rape with the precision of your wheat and you can consistently harvest at least 5 t/ha, insists Masstock argonomist, Philip Marr.
July 2005 - Keeping an Open Mind on Oilseed Rape Types. Hybrids or conventionals ? Low biomass or taller types ? Last year's Cereal Event host, Andrew Ward is refreshingly open-minded as far as oilseed rape variety choice is concerned at Glebe Farm, Leadenham near Sleaford.
July 2005 - Innovative Seeds Partnership Launched with New All-round Oilseed Rape Variety. An innovative new seeds partnership has been launched by crop production specialists, Agrovista UK Limited in alliance with leading regional seed producers across the country to provide UK growers with a unique combination of national strength and trusted, local service.
July 2005 - Niche Markets Offer Broad Opportunities. Growing on contract for niche markets is something every UK grower should get involved in.
July 2005 - National Study Highlights Major OSR Profit Improvement Opportunities. Many growers across the country could improve their unsubsidised oilseed rape margins more than five-fold through greater management care and attention, suggests a national performance study conducted by ProCam Agronomy with its powerful 4cast crop management service.
July 2005 - National Outlook Reveals Encouraging 2006 Oilseed Rape Margin Opportunities. Promising market prospects for 2006 and beyond mean most UK growers should be able to make a reliably healthy margin from sowing oilseed rape this autumn, according to the latest outlook from national specialist, United Oilseeds.
July 2005 - National OSR Results Reveal Serious Variety Performance Discrepancy. Last season's oilseed rape production results from across the country reveal a serious discrepancy between individual variety rankings in commercial practice and small plot trials.
April 25, 2005 - Hybrid Rape is Set to Make a Comeback, and What Other Areas Breeders Are Looking to Exploit. In an exclusive visit to Monsanto's breeding station in France, Julian Gairdner discovers why hybrid rape is set to make a comeback, and what other areas breeders are looking to exploit.
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