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Oilseed rape: from Hybrid to Harvest

Oilseed rape is an integral part of the UK arable rotation, but it’s not without its risks and challenges. Corteva is committed to supporting farmers and agronomists to grow oilseed rape successfully.

This online hub will support you through the season. Bookmark this page and visit regularly for updates.

From May-July, we will be featuring a series of videos with oilseed rape growers and specialists, with their views on growing OSR. We've asked them 3 key questions, watch for more:

What are the main benefits to growing oilseed rape?
What are the top things essential to growing OSR successfully?
Is there anything you plan on doing differently this autumn?

Let's talk about oilseed rape with Will Baker

Corteva Agriscience at Cereals Event 2024: Pioneer OSR

Corteva's Andy Stainthorpe updates us from Cereals Event 2024 about the range of OSR hybrids on display, key features and reasons why Corteva supports the oilseed rape crop.

Maximise your oilseed rape crop potential

£200 cashback to support your OSR crop

We will be offering £200 cashback to anyone that purchases Protector® Sclerotinia PT303 hybrid and Belkar® herbicide for the 2024/25 growing season.

The ever-present threat of sclerotinia

Sclerotinia losses can be as high as 60%, but better forecasting, well-timed spray programmes and, most recently, genetic advances in varieties all help prevent such circumstances becoming common.

Which hybrid should you choose?

View our full range of OSR hybrids, including our Protector® Sclerotinia products.

Discover our hyrbid range

Oilseed rape OSR at Korvetto timing 1 March 2022

OSR herbicides in a programme

Corteva’s portfolio of oilseed rape herbicides offer flexible, reliable control across a wide spectrum of weeds and timings. They can fit into the programme based on the season and target weeds. Take a look at our topic sheet to find out more.

Post-emergence herbicide for OSR

Belkar® is a post-emergence autumn applied herbicide for use on winter oilseed rape. It is highly effective for key weeds such as cleavers, cranesbill, fumitory, poppies and shepherd’s purse.

Discover Belkar herbicide

Capture nitrogen throughout the season

BlueN is classed as a foliar applied biostimulant, composed of an exclusive strain of naturally occurring endophytic bacteria, Methylobacterium symbioticum. M. symbioticum uses methanol given off by the plant during metabolic processes as an energy source to fix atmospheric nitrogen and convert it to ammonium inside the plant. Ammonium is used to make essential amino acids essential for plant growth.

Discover BlueN

Oilseed rape product highlights

We're committed to developing new chemistry and solutions for oilseed rape growers. View our product highlights to find out more.

BlueN™

Pioneer PT312

PT303 Protector® Sclerotinia tolerant hybrid

Pioneer seed treatments

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Let's talk about oilseed rape with Andrew Bowley

Oilseed rape is an integral part of the UK arable rotation, but it’s not without its risks and challenges. Andrew Bowley, an arable farmer from Leicestershire, shares his advice.

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Let's talk about oilseed rape with Andrew Bowley

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Oilseed rape is an integral part of the UK arable rotation, but it’s not without its risks and challenges. Andrew Bowley, an arable farmer from Leicestershire, shares his advice.