A massive increase in adoption has led to hybrid canola varieties accounting for about 40 per cent of canola seed sales in Australia this year.
Western Australian growers can obtain information about hybrid canola in a new Hybrid Canola Fact Sheet included in the latest edition of the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) magazine Ground Cover, which will be in growers’ mailboxes in early September.
GRDC pulse and oilseeds manager Brondwen MacLean said a hybrid was a plant created by cross-pollinating male and female in-bred parents, and had the benefit of ‘hybrid vigour’.
“With good management, hybrid canola offers growers in the medium and high rainfall zones the potential to increase yields,” she said.
“However, the balance between increased seed price, yield and grain price needs to be assessed.”
* Growers can sign up for Ground Cover or download it from the GRDC website.
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