Drought-struck rape seedbeds proved a nightmare last autumn. Gilly Johnson looks at one farmer's chance solution, and gets some tips for the coming season. IN TWENTY years, I've never seen such a difficult autumn for rape establishment," says TAG agronomist David Parish. Based in the Beds/Cambs/ Northants area where heavy boulder clay predominates, winter rape failures forced a significant amount of redrilling in the spring. "I reckon only 25% of the rape area sown by my clients last autumn survivedto harvest," he says.
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