V316OL

Variety Positioning

• V316OL is the mainstay of the HOLL acreage and remains one of the highest yielding hybrids on the Recommended List. It continues to perform well in Agrii’s and on-farm. The HOLL market continues to deliver premiums to growers and contracts for harvest m2019 are priced at £20 over ‘00’ oilseed rape. With high gross output, high oil content and excellent HOLL quality, it remains very attractive to the crusher and growers alike.
• Suitable for all soils and regions but most of Agrii’s sales are in the East & West Region. Yorkshire tends to be the northern limit because it is crushed in Kent. Performs well on heavier soils but ensure a robust PGR programme is used to reduce the height of the canopy especially in more fertile situations. Best drilled in August as it is a slower developing variety and less suited for September drilling unless conditions remain favourable.
• Grows quickly away in the spring to produce a very tall stiff canopy. Medium-early to flower and a long pod fill period means that has medium-late maturity. Reasonably good disease resistance but no pod shatter resistance.
• One of the varieties least affected by Verticillium wilt where it was assessed in Agrii’s trials.

Footnotes:
~ The full AHDB dataset is available www.cereals.ahdb.org.uk/varieties
# AHDB control Yields UK (5.4t/ha), E/W (5.4 t/ha), North (5.6 t/ha),
Agrii control yields (4.3 t/ha)