Tagged: Agrii
Veg seeds treatment plant to come this autumn
May 10, 2022
Vegetable Seed Enhancement Facility Agrii VSE will be a full-service offering with a broad range of processes backed by Agrii’s R&D expertise, writes Skye Van Heyzen, Agrii Vegetable Seed Enhancement manager Agrii VSE is in the final stages of its… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, facility, food security, seed treatment, veg enhancement, vegetable seed, Vegetable seed treatment, VSE
Making veg production digital will improve returns
May 3, 2022
New programs and systems will extend the precision of field vegetable production and give users a better insight to crop development, writes Don Pendergrast, Agrii technical manager (non-combinable crops) Agrii already has a digital platform for precision farming that it… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, Analysis, Crop Monitoring, crops, Digital, Measure, Production, Rhiza, vegetable
Vegetables: Release their potential
January 7, 2022
By Chris Wallwork, Agrii Technical Manager (Vegetables) Phosphorus is required early within vegetable crop development to encourage rooting, essential for further water and nutrient exploration of the rooting zone. As a result, it is most vital to the crop early… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii-start, cauliflower, release, trials, vegetable crops
Establishing a legacy of excellence at The Wiston Estate Vineyard.
July 10, 2021
The Wiston Estate has enjoyed considerable success in recent years. Vineyard magazine spoke to one of the founders to hear how it has achieved so much in such a short time. Time is often a luxury that few can afford… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomy, fruit crops, grape, vineyard, vineyard magazine, Vineyards, wine, winery, wiston estate, wiston estate wine
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – April 2021
April 19, 2021
A drier spell has enabled us to move ahead with our top dressing. However early spraying off was disrupted by the wet and wind. Every time the ground seems to be drying out enough to think about spring drilling another… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, blackgrass, bulb fly, byvd, crop performance, disease problems, jo bell, kws, kws zyatt, OSR, PGR, Spring Barley, spring cropping, spring crops, spring wheat, talking agronomy, what, wheat, 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
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
Agrii and University of Warwick sign agreement to bring UK beans to market
February 9, 2021
Agrii and the University of Warwick’s research commercialisation wing, Warwick Innovations, have signed a contract to promote the commercial production of UK haricot beans developed by scientists at the University of Warwick. Professor Eric Holub, from Warwick’s Crop Centre, part… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, baked beans, beans, black bean, blond bean, british grown, capulet, Dr Suzanna Wood, farming, godiva, haricot beans, olivia bean, Professor Eric Holub, university of Warwick, Warwick Innovations, white bean. british beans
Improving P availability for a broad range of crops
February 2, 2021
Our new product – Agrii-Start Release – works to Release Phosphorus tied up in the soil pools making P more available to plants. Built on our unique P-Reserve technology, Agrii-Start Release is particularly effective on High P Soils where there… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii carnoustie ifarm, agrii technical manager, agrii-start release, carnoustie ifarm site, early phosphorus availability, early root growth, higher root mass, improved root growth, inclusion of release, number of trial, phosphorus, phosphorus responsive vegetables, range of crop, responsive vegetables crop, root zone, shallow power cultivation, soil, soil phosphorus activator, spring barley trial, vegetables, vegetables crop
Putting Covers Into Context with Understanding
January 18, 2021
Cover and catch cropping may work well for many managing lighter and erosion-prone soils but for those on heavier and more difficult ground they remain very far from the answer to any sort of maiden’s prayer. The right cover crops… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii stow, Agrii trials, catch, catch crop, cover, cover crop benefits, cpver crops, crop, crop rotations, cultivation, cultivation techniques, david felce, heavy-alnd, soil, soil health, steve corbett, Stow Longa, winter what