United Kingdom
May 21, 2018
DSV will be previewing its new ‘triple-layered’ high performance oilseed rape with sowing to harvest disease protection and yield protection alongside its growing portfolio of Clearfield varieties and TerraLife crops at Cereals 2018.
“Our triple-layered varieties are designed to set a new benchmark for agronomic performance and growing security in oilseed rape,” explains the company’s Sarah Hawthorne.
“The idea is to provide growers with much lower input, lower maintenance varieties that are more relevant to farming in the future without the level of fungicides and agronomic interventions currently used.
“As such, they will be the first varieties commercially available in the UK to combine multiple characteristics such as RLM7+, TuYV resistance and pod shatter alongside other key agronomic benefits whilst maintaining the highest yields and oil contents possible.”
The approach has been developed in response to the Neonicotinoid ban and the general move away from high input management, she explains.
“We are effectively using breeding to ensure the varieties have as much yield resilience and disease protection built in so genetics increasingly do the job that the sprayer did previously.”
“Three of these varieties are currently going through the UK testing system with the first growers now trialling them on farms across the country too.”
The varieties share the same foundation of vigour and yield delivery as the highly successful Incentive 45 and will sit alongside DSV’s growing portfolio of Clearfield varieties.
“Plurax CL and Phoenix CL are proving to be very high yielding imadazolinone resistant oilseed rape varieties following on from our established Veritas CL.
“Clearfield is growing rapidly and our varieties are amongst the best available. Alongside strong yield stability and oil contents, both Phoenix CL and Plurax CL have good all round disease protection with Plurax CL featuring exceptional verticillium wilt tolerance too.”
A key feature of the stand will be a look at how sacrificial crops such as mustard and forage radish can be planted alongside Clearfield varieties to reduce flea beetle pressure in oilseed rape.
A full range of cover crop options will also be featured on the DSV stand at Cereals 2018, Sarah Hawthorne points out.
“We have cover crop solutions for all applications now including the complex TerraLife multi-species crop mixtures designed to fulfil specific agronomic and management objectives such as soil structure improvement, nutrient delivery and seedbed preparation.
“We’ll also have our full maize range for visitors to see and discuss including the latest variety Petroschka which gives us a full range for AD and forage production and covers all maturity groups from ultra early to late.”
The DSV stand is no. 471.
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