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摘要

Kevin Smith is looking to hide his oilseed rape under a cover of buckwheat and volunteer cereals to protect it from the ubiquitous cabbage stem flea beetle.The Hampshire farm manager almost gave up on the crop before this year trying a new low-risk, low-cost combination of direct drilling and companion cropping to beat oilseed rape's most damaging pest.Small oilseed rape plants with two cotyledon leaves and one true leaf were untouched by hungry flea beetles in mid-September underneath the green protective cover.