Oilseed rape guide

Although the technical content remains the same as the 2015 edition, the reissued 2018 guide has a fresh new look and is easier to navigate.

• Market selection
• Variety choice
• Yield determination (green area index images)
• Rotation planning
• Nutrient management
• Canopy management (including desiccation)
• Disease information (including downy mildew, grey mould, phoma leaf spot, light leaf spot, sclerotinia stem rot, clubroot, verticillium wilt and turnip yellows virus)
• Pest information (including slugs, cabbage stem flea beetle, peach–potato aphid, pollen beetle, seed weevil and brassica pod midge)
• Weed information (including black-grass, crane’s bill, cleavers, charlock, wild radish, poppy and volunteer cereals)
• Harvest and storage information
• At-a-glance management timings

See our dedicated disease management pages for the latest information on specific diseases.

See our full range of oilseed rape management publications.

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