March 2021
Joined-up action for food & farming sustainability
March 24, 2021
Climate change is a challenge the best of British food and farming is well-placed to address, alongside the loss of BPS and introduction of ELMS, growing legislative and environmental pressures and a diminishing crop protection armoury, believes Agrii head of… Read more
Tagged # british food, carbon, climate change champions, conflicting sustainability message, cpm, farmers network, green horizon farmers, horizon, ifarms, loss of bps, net zero, practical farming sustainability, r&d challenge project, sustainability improvement initiative, zero carbon
Valuable Bio-alternative to multi-sites at T0
March 23, 2021
Two years of Green Horizon agronomy-trialling have highlighted a valuable biological T0 alternative to multi-site fungicides in the annual battle against Septoria, paving the way for the increasingly broad use of bio-controls in mainstream wheat disease management. Already fully registered… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, average yield benefits, Clare Bend, conventional chemistry, Green Horizons, optimal application rate, plant defence, resistance strategy, septoria risk area, small plot trial, Yellow Rust
Research confirms fertiliser inhibitor value
March 19, 2021
Three seasons of UK trials have shown that using a combination of urease and nitrification inhibitors can not only improve efficiencies and reduce environmental impact but can boost soil fungal activity. The trials were carried out on Agril’s nitrogen-stabilising product… Read more
Tagged # crop protection, fertiliser, liqui-safe, N20, NIAB TAG, nitrogen, NUE, nutrition, skyfall, Sustainability, tom land, trials, UAN
10-Way Cultivations Trials Encourages Further Heavy-Land Tillage Reductions
March 17, 2021
An innovative cultivations trial involving 10 different min-till cultivators setting-up 18ha of heavy clay ground in the autumn for spring barley drilling has underlined the extent to which Andrew Ward and his team at Roy Ward Farms in Lincolnshire could… Read more
Tagged # agrii trial manager, amount of metal, andrew ward, assistance of designer, autumn cultivation depth, degree of soil, depth of autumn, different min, direct drilling, established cultivation practice, establishment cost, expensive new equipment, farm cultivation regime, glebe farm cultivation, glebe farm team, heavy ground, immediate gross margin, issues of soil, lot of trash, low trash level, lower fuel use, mr corbett, mr fowler, overall soil rating, part of agrii, pass simba solo, roy ward farm, shallower working, shallowest trial cultivation, showed cultivation cost, simba freeflow drill, simba solo standard, Soil structure, spring barley drilling, spring barley yield, spring bean, standard glebe farm, structured heavier soil, sustainability of uk, tillage reduction effort, total operating cost, useful extra flexibility, width of soil, wright of wright
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – March 2021
March 15, 2021
Mid-February and it’s clear we’re facing another season in which getting onto the land is our key challenge. The Beast from the East Mk II has brought some welcome cold, but much of our ground is wetter than ever, having… Read more
Tagged # abinbev, agrii-start, AGRII-START PLUSES, barley, beet lifting, beetle larval count, budweiser, careful gai assessment, cover cropping, crop, crop performance, cruiser seed treatment, early spring nutrition, environmental loss, explorer, extra nutrition, farm water supplies, fertiliser plan, good plant count, grain aphid, grass control, introduced liqui-SAFE, late cercospera, leaves spot treatment, level of ion, little enthusiasm, N-MIN, nitrogen, nutrients lock, nutrients use efficiency, Oilseed rape, osr fertilisation, protected phosphate, rust vulnerability, seedbed nutrition, septoria, serious challenge, soil nitrogen level, spring barley volunteer, spring crop, spring nitrogen application, spring spray, urea ammonia nitrate, virus yellow, wheat bulbs, winter linseed, Yellow Rust
Why maize can fit for AD plants in the north
March 12, 2021
Careful variety selection has enabled maize to become a core ingredient feeding a Yorkshire farm’s anaerobic digestion plant. Using maize as a key feedstock wasn’t the original plan, or even plan B, when Alaric Booth and his brother Charlie commissioned… Read more
Tagged # AD, Agrii, anaerobic digestion, Digestion, energy crops, fieldstar, maize, phillip Marr, renewables, yorkshire
First come… first RESERVED
March 9, 2021
With our changing climate presenting ever more unpredictably in our weather patterns, farming businesses are increasingly looking for new ways to build resilience into their operations. After two poor autumns in a row, one way to ensure that you have… Read more
Tagged # Agrii seed, Agrii sustainbility ratings, autumn, best seeds, drill date, drilling, master seed, reserved seed, secure seed, weather, winter cereal seed, winter crops, winter wheat
Kinross Spring Update
March 8, 2021
Agronomist and iFarm coordinator Iain Anderson gives us an update from the field at our NEW Kinross ifarm site.
Tagged # crops barley, Iain Anderson, iFarm, kinross, Perth, scotland, trials
Cropwatch South – February 2021
March 5, 2021
Another season of fancy drilling footwork sees us with three distinct types of wheat – all looking promising but each requiring a different approach to fulfil that promise. The crops drilled on our low black-grass ground in late September are… Read more
Tagged # crop nutrition, cropping, cropwatch south, OSR, oxfordshire, south, spring, winter wheat
Making Sustainability Work on the North Hampshire Down
March 3, 2021
Net Zero is already a reality at Faccombe Estates on the Hampshire-Berkshire border near Newbury, with their comprehensive 2020 Farm Carbon Calculator report showing a net sequestration of over 1800 tonnes CO2/year. But director Al Brooks and his team are… Read more
Tagged # agriculture, Agrii, agronomy, Faccombe Estates, farming, Linseed, livestock, min-till, net zero, Newbury, nutrition, plough, sheep, spring crops, Sustainability