![]() He sees most other break crops benefitting, with areas of winter beans, winter oats, winter linseed or sugar beet where grown all creeping up. ![]() Strutt and Parker director and AICC agronomist Jock Willmott says across his area from Warwickshire to East Suffolk, there is likely to be further substantial reductions in the oilseed rape area, with the majority of farms dropping the crop altogether. ![]() This disruption means there are some tricky decisions to be made this autumn as farms look to get back on track, both in terms of rotation and profitability, which will have inevitably taken a hit. Oilseed rape has also seen a further 25% decline, which in part was down to a dry establishment period and worsening cabbage stem flea beetle damage across large parts of England. To maximise output in these situations, growers are urged to consider the golden rules of successful second or consecutive cereal production, including high seed rates, targeted use of seed treatments and early spring nutrition.Īccording to AHDB’s Spring Planting and Variety Survey, the wet winter resulted in a 25% drop in the winter wheat area for harvest 2020 as many growers switched to spring cereals, most notably spring barley with a 52% increase.
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