Tagged: black – grass
Deeper Thinking For The Best Wet Winter Recovery
May 4, 2020
How well we recover from last winter is far more about what we grow and how we grow it after the crops we have in ground this season than it is about how we manage land that has been too… Read more
Tagged # autumn, black - grass, blackgrass, crop, establishment, Felce, harvest, Rhiza, soil, soil health, sol recovery, spring, Stow Longa, stow longs, winter
CropWatch South: September 2019
September 26, 2019
Another successful harvest behind us and we’d be in good spirits if it wasn’t for the flea beetle storm of the past week and bone-dry soils. The rain eventually came just in time for most of last season’s wheats. Because… Read more
Tagged # black - grass, crop performance, crops, drilling, Oilseed rape, technical advice, weather, wheat, wheat drilling, wheat yields, winter cereals, winter crops
Iain Richards Blog – Waiting on the ‘Indian summer’
October 5, 2015
By the time you read this in early October we should be revelling in the welcome, much belated ‘Indian summer’ promised by the forecasters. The August deluge meant we couldn’t get a lot of our wheats and spring barleys combined… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass, drilling, pre - em treatment, Spring Barley, wheat
Addressing Key Cover Questions
April 27, 2015
Cover cropping shows considerable promise but major questions remain over its true value for heavy ground with black-grass problems in particular, believes Agrii trials manager, Steve Corbett. We recorded spring cereal yield benefits of up to 1.8 t/ha from cover… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, black - grass, black - grass problems, cover crops, drilling, Soil structure
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
Hit grass weeds hard ahead of autumn drilling
August 4, 2014
Growers must take full advantage of the timely harvest and good soil moisture levels to really hit grass weeds hard ahead of planting this autumn. And wherever possible they should aim to spray off two or even three flushes of… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, black - grass, black - grass problems, grass weeds, Oilseed rape, OSR, ploughing, resistant ryegrass, Seedbed managment
Patience is a virtue with bad black-grass
August 1, 2014
Delaying wheat drilling on bad black-grass ground for little more than a month can improve margins and reduce future weed problems dramatically, according to latest results from the country’s leading black-grass management trials site. And if conditions don’t favour late… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass, black - grass problems, blackgrass, crop performance, disease problems, drilling, ifarms
Make the most of peri/post-em applications to counter current grass weed threats
November 5, 2013
Excellent late growing conditions following plentiful October rain across the country this autumn mean cereal growers need to take full advantage of good soil moisture levels to build-up the residual component of their herbicide programmes if they are to counter… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass, cereal herbicides, crop performance, disease problems, R&D, weed control
South: Countering serious weed concerns
October 21, 2013
With the exception of crops after maize and those on the worst black-grass ground, most of our first wheats are safely sown and establishing evenly from good quality seedbeds in a nice open autumn. Our winter barleys are just starting… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass, disease problems, seed bed, wheat, wheat drilling
Opening the door to precision black-grass management
September 27, 2013
Targeted grass weed management based on automated detection and mapping is set to join the growing arsenal of precision farming technologies helping UK arable farmers produce more from less, thanks to a pioneering new project. Offering the opportunity to improve… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, black - grass, black - grass problems, disease problems, R&D, Soilquest, wheat