🌻 Oilseed rape
An oilseed with the same 5-year rule as turnip rape. Winter rape has a high yield potential on a good parcel.
Sowing
VYR: plan it like turnip rape. Choose the variety and spring or winter type. Fix structure and pH first.
Soil and parcel
Good structure and pH (VYR). The RypsiRapsi forum fact sheet: winter rape has a higher yield potential than winter turnip rape and belongs on good parcels.
Fertilising
Fertilising is separate for spring and winter types in the guide. No single rate is copied here.
Yield and harvest
A contract crop, like turnip rape. Oil and protein feed (VYR). Pest control is often needed as well as weeds and disease.
🔄 In the rotation
- Role
- Breaks a cereal run and, with a long root, looks after the soil.
- Good preceding crop
- Not after turnip rape or oilseed rape before the 5-year gap (VYR).
- Good following crop
- A cereal. Trans Farm: do not establish caraway after oilseed rape (Sclerotinia).
- Gap on the same parcel
- Only every 5th year on the same parcel (VYR).
Other crops
Sources
- VYR: Rypsin ja rapsin viljelyopas
- RypsiRapsi-foorumi: kannattavuustuloksia 2015–2024 (ProAgria Lohkotietopankki)
Links open public guides. Always check your own contract and parcel advice.
General rotation advice – not a substitute for advice, a contract or the law. Figures come from the sources, not from invention.