Tagged: agronomist
Vineyard Update: A challenging Start
March 25, 2020
Julian Searle, Fruit Agronomist. It’s been a wet and warm winter and unusually so. Unless temperatures fall we can expect bud burst in vines before the end of the month. Statistics from the Met office about the weather, if we… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, fruit, grapes, julian searle, rainfall, sunshine, technical, update, vines, vineyard, vineyard magazine, weather, wine
Building on a Traditional Recipe with Innovation in Fife
December 20, 2019
At first sight Lacesston at Gateside near Cupar is a traditional North east Fife family farm. Potatoes and spring barley are its mainstays, with soft wheat grown for distilling and oats for Quaker. All its sandy loam arable ground is… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, barley, conservation, cover crop, donald hay, john weir, liming, oats, potatoes, precision agriculture, Precision Farming, precision growing, rtk precision, scotland, soil care, soil health, sustainable agriculture, variable rate, winner
Raising the Quality Wheat Bar in Dorset
May 3, 2016
Together, the Moderski family’s KAM Farming and Yuill Farms almost equalled Rod Smith’s world wheat record with a 16.39 t/ha wheat crop at Friar Waddon just outside Weymouth last year. Not only this, but the entire 12.2 ha field of… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, Crusoe, milling wheats, OSR, skyfall, variety choice, wheat, wheat yields, yield potential
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