http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/06/23/110942/oilseed-rape-still-a-good-bet-for-autumn-2008.html
I have just picked myself from the floor and wiped a tear or laughter from my eye. I think since FW stopped actualy farming, that they have just copied verbatim exactly what reps say about their product.
"Winter linseed was also looking more attractive than pulses" - yes, maybe in crazy mental land. Please do interoduce me to the farmer who got close to a grand per hectare gross. Even spring linseed, which we have succesfully grown on our land, will struggle to do £600 gross next year. If you want to grow spring barley, do so. Dont grow it because you are plowing up failed winter linseed.
The best though was "Mr Myers illustrated his point by calculating a gross margin". Bollocks. Heavy land, high spray inputs and 5-year average yield will put a good £150 a hectare on this chaps figures. Export samples are very simple to get, if you do your spraying right.
I wonder, if I calculated a gross margin that showed that dancing the funky gibbon on your land paid well, would it get published.
This is an article based entirely on speculative figures. Its guesswork. Its like journalism based on what you think someone is thinking. Please FW, since you have stopped being farmers, articles like this are panning your credability.