Excel - Restored Hybrid Winter Oilseed Rape
Key Benefits
- Excellent yields giving consistently high gross output
- Best ever stem canker and good light leaf spot resistance makes
Excel unique in its all round disease resistance package
- High level of hybrid vigour aiding good establishment under
difficult conditions
Yield
- Excellent seed yield and high gross output
Source: National list 2 year analysis 2005 Controls; Winner, Fortis,
Escort and Disco
Source: The Arable Group Trials data 2005n
Disease Resistance
Excel offers any OSR grower concerned about stem canker the best possible
resistance, together with outstanding hybrid vigour.
- Sets a new standard for stem canker resistance
- Robust light leaf spot resistance
Source: National list 2 year analysis 2005 Controls; Winner, Fortis,
Escort and Disco Agronomy
- Excel is a medium-stiff strawed variety providing good lodging
resistance
- In common with most hybrid types Excel has a very vigorous growth
habit
Source: National list 2 year analysis 2005 Controls; Winner, Fortis,
Escort and Disco
To achieve optimum results from the variety careful attention
to crop nutrition and plant growth regulation is recommended; discuss
with your agronomist.
Drilling Rates
- Aim for a target spring population of 40 plants per m 2
- Seed rate will vary with seedbed conditions and estimated plant
losses over winter
- Drilling rate will normally range from 55 - 70 seeds per m 2
All information is a partial extraction from the Monsanto website
and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See www.monsanto-ag.co.uk
and also www.hgca.com for
the full dataset
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