Establishment recipe maintains OSR's key rotational role

One Dorset farm has identified six key areas to secure oilseed rape establishment, securing successful yields and a firm place in a profitable rotation

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Establishment recipe maintains OSR's key rotational role

Despite serious pressures from cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB), slugs, gamebirds, as well as the wettest winter on record at Eastbury Estates based near Blandford, Dorset, 100 hectares of DK Exsteel is...

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