Nitrogen for Oilseeds

Agrii agronomist, Andrew Lowe, has been using Skippy Scout’s Green Area Index to recommend Nitrogen rates for OSR, saving £60/ha*

*Based on the average price of Nitrogen in 2022

Last season, Andrew managed to save one of his farmers £60 per ha in one field of OSR by using Skippy
Scout. He did this by doing some soil mineral nitrogen tests to find out the true value of the nitrogen
that was left in the soil by the previous crop. He then used Skippy Scout to get the GAI values from the
crop at different points in the field. These could then be used to apply nitrogen variably or could be
used to create an average application for the whole field.

In this instance Andrew created an average application for the farmer to apply to each field due to
Skippy Scouts “Crop Uniformity” reading. This reading gives growers an insight into how evenly their
crop is growing and if variable rate is in fact needed or whether an average is sufficient. In this instance
the crop uniformity was 91%.

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Andrews Calculations: