Tagged: Agri-intelligence

Vicki Brooks Blog: Another decent spring cropping start

May 3, 2016

Going into mid-April, we’ve really profited from a cooler than average March with a reasonable amount of rainfall but sufficient dry weather to get plenty of timely fieldwork completed – spring drilling as well as fertiliser application on winter crops… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, barley, blog, cover crops, fertiliser, OSR, septoria, T1's, T2, wheat

Sam Patchett Blog: Difficult Spring Spraying

May 3, 2016

With little let-up in the weather into early April, Sam Patchett sees many northern growers fast running out of grass weed control options and facing increasingly difficult spring spraying compromises. It’s been unrelenting. Again, things were drying out nicely in… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, disease control, grass weed control, Linseed, Oilseed rape, OSR, septoria, T0, T1, weed control

Understanding the real benefits of cover crops

March 11, 2016

Catch and cover crops can give good control of black-grass and useful improvements in soil structure, growers have been told. But everyone needs to choose and manage them with particular care. And no one should expect too much in the… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass problems, blackgrass, catch crops, cover crops, R&D, Stow Longa

Vicki Brooks Blog: Getting the early balance right

February 29, 2016

Considering how much rain and how little frost we’ve had, most of our ground is still walking remarkably well. This is mainly due to the impressive moisture pumping ability of actively growing crops in an exceptionally mild winter with plenty… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Light Leaf Spot, nutrition, Oilseed rape, OSR, rooting, septoria, T0's, technical advice, trial plots, wheat, winter wheat

Iain Richards Blog: Clearing the decks for spring barley drilling

February 29, 2016

Two weeks ago much of our oilseed rape was racing towards stem extension; it looked like we might have to bite the bullet and give wheats carrying worrying levels of active yellow rust a pre-T0; and spring sowing seemed a… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, cultivations, Light Leaf Spot, nutrition, OSR, septoria, Yellow Rust

Sam Patchett Blog: Careful early season management

February 22, 2016

Despite the wetness, most crops are coming through the winter well. But they will need particularly careful early season management. As it’s been wet, windy or both since we were ready to go on with our post-em sprays in the… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Light Leaf Spot, PGR's, Pollen beetle, Septoria and rust risks, shallow rooting, wheat varieties

Iain Richards Blog: Not enough wetness to dampen the spirits ….. yet

February 8, 2016

The wettest January in recent memory on top of a back-end with so few sunshine hours that the ground never had a chance to dry out when it wasn’t raining certainly means we have more than enough water about. Any… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Oilseed rape, OSR, PGR's, T0, T1's, wheat

Vicki Brooks Blog – Looking forward to at least a little winter

January 27, 2016

We should always be careful what we wish for, but with January fast disappearing a little less rain and a decent cold snap would be really welcome. Although soil temperatures dropped away in early December, in most cases conditions were… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, blog, cover cropping, cover crops, micro-nutrient, septoria, Soil structure, soil temperature

Developing the Most Integrated Septoria Management

January 22, 2016

Thoroughly integrated management, employing an extended armoury of agronomic tools alongside the best available chemistry has become every bit as essential in cost-effective wheat Septoria control as it is in tackling the scourge of black-grass, believes Agrii head of R&D,… Read more

Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide programmes, R&D, septoria, variety choice

Early Spring Barley Nutrition Makes all the Difference