Tagged: BYDV
Cropwatch South – November 2020
November 14, 2020
This October was even wetter than last for us; the wettest on record for many, in fact, with anywhere from 190–230 mm in the rain gauge across my geography. A brief respite in the middle of the month allowed us… Read more
Tagged # astrokerb, autumn cropping, avadex, BYDV, CSFB, early sown, fingicide, OSR, OSR Companion, osr phoma, winter cereals
Cropwatch South – October 2020
October 16, 2020
We’ve certainly been glad to move on from the 2020 harvest. While extremely variable, it wasn’t actually as bad as we feared in many cases. Our November/December wheat drillings, in particular, were a pleasant surprise. A combination of better prices… Read more
Tagged # BYDV, CSFB, OSR, winter barley, winter wheat
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
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell – November/December
October 26, 2019
As we move rapidly towards the end of the year, it’s time to get our winter cereals in on high black-grass risk ground. The rain has been a godsend in giving us just the flush of weed growth we have… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, BYDV, crop protection, crops, farming, seed dressing, soil, wheat, winter cereals
Challenging Season Underlines Seed Treatment Value
July 2, 2012
Particular challenges from take-all, BYDV, foliar disease and blackgrass over the past season have underlined the vital importance of carefully-selected cereal seed treatments, believes Agrii crop protection technical manager, Chris Bean. Not least because application is independent of the difficult… Read more
Tagged # barley, blackgrass, blackgrass management site, BYDV, cereal seed treatments, drought tolerance, environmental stresses, foliar disease, spraying programmes, wheat, wheat and barley infections, wheat bulb fly, winter hardiness, wireworm, yellow rust infections