Tagged: barley
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – October 2020
October 1, 2020
Mid-September and there’s just some linseed and beans to finish harvesting. As we feared, the August storms took their toll of some cereals. Oats were the worst hit, with up to 50% of the grain on the floor; a shame… Read more
Tagged # armadillo, barley, blackgrass, budweiser, BYDV, dickens, explorer, extase, glyphosate, grt, kerrin, kws, lanter, lantern, Linseed, OSR, seed, silversurfer, skyfall, varieties, wheat, winter wheat, wolverine, zyatt
Co-Ordinated Research Supports Grain Rye Growth
August 14, 2020
Grain rye is attracting a growing following across the country as the latest research demonstrates its particular abilities in both arable cropping and animal feeding. From less than 1000ha currently being grown in the UK, Agrii specialists who have been… Read more
Tagged # animal feed, animal nutrition, barley, bishop burton, elsoms seeds, end market, Grain, Leeds University, Pig, Pig feed, Rye, trials, winter cereals
Talking Agrnomy with Jo Bell
April 4, 2020
Calling a halt to Skyfall drilling in mid-March, we have between zero and 30% of our planned wheat acreage in the ground. Altogether we have labelled around 70% of our undrilled fields green or amber in the traffic light system… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, barley, beans, brexit, ceh, Environment, explorer, foliar nutrition, lancrop, OSR, Pollen beetle, septoria, skyfall, soil, Stow Longa, technical, wheat
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
UPDATE: Winter Cropping Options
December 17, 2019
The extremely wet Autumn has left many of you asking how late can winter crops be sown and, even if it’s possible at all. The good news is that there are options available to you and our Technical Team have… Read more
Tagged # barley, crops, establishment, oats, skyfall, soil health, winter, winter wheat
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
Barley Seed Choices for the Spring
November 11, 2014
Barry Barker – Arable Seed Product Manager Spring Barley remains by far the biggest spring crop in the UK. The effort breeders are putting into it is typified by the fact that there are 39 varieties currently in the Recommended… Read more
Tagged # barley, malting barley, Spring Barley
So far very good with the cereal harvest
August 12, 2014
Cereals are enjoying an exceptional harvest so far providing grass weeds and diseases have been sufficiently well-controlled, reports Agrii head of crop marketing, David Neale. Winter crops are coming off in good time with encouragingly high yields and grain quality…. Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, crop markets, exporting, grain quality, harvest, OSR, wheat, wheat yields, Yellow Rust
Enforced Change Boosts Spring Cropping Confidence
January 14, 2014
Last year saw a complete reversal of Graham Read’s cropping pattern to nearly 90% spring sowing at Sandhill Farm, Longbridge Deverill on the western edge of the Salisbury Plain. Although forced upon him by the season, the experience has been… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, barley, OSR, wheat
David Neale Blog – What a difference a year makes?
October 10, 2013
Dare I suggest we needed some moisture this week (forecasted) to break down some pretty solid lumps to get a decent seedbed for the remaining acres. This was highlighted at our Annual Ploughing Match on the next door Estate at… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, barley, disease problems, grain stocks, harvest, oats, OSR, ploughing, pulses, weather