Crop Production

Severe dryness at the time of rapeseed sowing is a major issue. To give oilseed rape the best possible start, it is important to act thoughtfully.

Are herbicide residues used in previously grown crops a reason for poor rapeseed yields? 

Regardsless of whether you have to deal with extremely dry or extremely wet sowing conditions: Thanks to his strip-till procedure of direct seed drilling, Thinus Glitz increases rapeseed yields on his heavy clay soils in Bad Driburg (East Westphalian uplands, Germany).

Published article by RAPOOL CZ with some small adaptations regarding translation and additional data: https://www.rapool.cz/index.cfm/nav/413/article/4882.html

The late harvest this year will delay the coming sowing season on many farms. However, deviations from the optimum sowing date will always pose a risk to the farmer. In this article we will give you some tips to help you to determine your individual, latest sowing date and some recommendations regarding the crop management.

The new Turnip Yellows Virus (TuYV) generation of Rapool enable flexible Nitrogen fertilization in spring – a sustainable solution for a better cost efficiency in rapeseed?   

How the autumn developed is influencing spring fertilization

 Participants, from 7 nations search the new Rapeseed champion

Rapeseed present in the last years an outstanding success story. 2014 reached the EU rapeseed production their last peak with 24.2 Mill. tons. The farmers made a huge profit with the yellow flowering crop but based on several factors rapeseed become under pre...

At the moment, the question of whether the cultivation of rapeseed still turns out to be profitable is being intensely discussed in many cropping businesses, but it is precisely the current prospects for oilseed rape that do not look bad at all. In addition to the well-known strengths of rapeseed, such as the effects as a preceding cro...

Background

Since last year, it has been too dry and hot in large parts of Germany, although at the start of May, when the oilseed rape was flowering, it was cold and frosty, which means that pod-setting suffered. Then there was the heat wave at the end of June, right in the middle of ripening. Yields have oft...