Tagged: Cereals
First-Ever Sustainability Ratings Established for Winter Cereal Varieties
August 16, 2020
The first-ever sustainability ratings for all today’s leading winter wheat and barley varieties have been published this season to help growers choose cereals offering them the greatest agronomic strength with the least production risk and environmental impact. The ratings are… Read more
Tagged # Agrii advisory list, AHDB RL, best wheat, Cereals, disease, disease pressure, genetics, lodging, rating, recommended list, Sustainability, sustainable agriculture, variety characteristics
Improving Crop Nutrition with Grain Analyses
November 22, 2019
Post-harvest grain analyses are proving a valuable aid to improving crop nutrition, reveals extensive research on Agrii iFarms across the country. Co-ordinated by R&D manager, Jim Carswell, the most recent studies involved some 300 samples of winter wheat, OSR, winter… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, Cereals, fertiliser, grain analyses, iFarm, lancrop, OSR, R&D, seedbed, soil, technical, winter wheat
Intelligence on Yellow Rust Concerns
September 10, 2019
Yellow rust has been a serious concern in many parts of the country in the past season, with a number of varieties proving markedly more susceptible to infection than expected; especially where early fungicide programmes were cut back in the… Read more
Tagged # Advisory list, AHDB, Cereals, colin lloyd, crops, Crusoe, delayed drilling, LG Sundance, SDHI, Yellow Rust