Harvest 2025: 5 top-yielding winter OSR varieties
© Tim Scrivener Throughout the harvest season, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from the AHDB’s 2025 oilseed rape Recommended List harvest results.
Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding oilseed rape varieties at your nearest trials site.
See also: Harvest 2025: The 5 top-yielding winter barley varieties map
Oilseed rape summary
Results from all but one of the fungicide-treated Recommended List (RL) winter oilseed rape trials have been published with the overall average yield for control varieties at 5.74 t/ha, which is 0.39 t/ha above the four-year average. The highest yield has been 7.11 t/ha in the Scottish Borders and the lowest 4.23 t/ha in a trial in Hampshire.
Four of the seven fungicide-untreated trials have survived, with control varieties averaging 4.99 t/ha, 0.33 t/ha below the four-year average. Again, the Hampshire trial being lowest yielding at 4.17 t/ha and a trial in Fife highest at 5.69 t/ha. Three further fungicide-untreated trials were lost to CSFB or pigeons.
Oilseed rape varieties
With just one fungicide-treated trial to come, the current results can be considered a fair representation of performance in 2025.
The highest yielding currently recommended varieties are the newly recommended hybrid Adapt and the East/West hybrid Turing on 106%, just ahead of Academic on 105%.
These are followed by East/West hybrid Murray on 104% and hybrids Armada and newly recommended hybrid varieties Avenger for the North and Maverick for the East/West, all on 103%.
The other newly recommended hybrids have underperformed in 2025, with both Hinsta and Magelan on 100%.
Of the conventional varieties Tom is highest yielding on 96%, with Pi Pinnacle on 94% alongside newly recommended for the North Powerhouse, also on 94%. All the conventional varieties have underperformed this year, with East/West variety Annika on 91%.
Recent seasons have seen increasing problems with clubroot in RL trials, with a number being abandoned in the north of England. Looking at the clubroot resistant varieties, newly recommended Cromputer (99%) is highest yielding with newly recommended Crusoe on 97%, reversing their positions on the current RL. Crocodile sits just below at 96% in 2025, with Crome on 94%.
East/West variety Beatrix CL is the highest yielding of the herbicide-tolerant varieties on 95% with Matrix CL and North variety Miraculix CL both on 93%
- Updated 28 August 2025
