Tagged: crop performance
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – April 2021
April 19, 2021
A drier spell has enabled us to move ahead with our top dressing. However early spraying off was disrupted by the wet and wind. Every time the ground seems to be drying out enough to think about spring drilling another… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, blackgrass, bulb fly, byvd, crop performance, disease problems, jo bell, kws, kws zyatt, OSR, PGR, Spring Barley, spring cropping, spring crops, spring wheat, talking agronomy, what, wheat, Yellow Rust
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – March 2021
March 15, 2021
Mid-February and it’s clear we’re facing another season in which getting onto the land is our key challenge. The Beast from the East Mk II has brought some welcome cold, but much of our ground is wetter than ever, having… Read more
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Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – February 2021
March 1, 2021
Once again, we have more than our fair share of cold, very wet soils. Official figures show double the long-term average December rainfall in parts of our region. And, as we go into the second half of January, some of… Read more
Tagged # agrii-start, AGRII-START PLUSES, beet lifting, beetle larval count, careful gai assessment, cover cropping, crop, crop performance, cruiser seed treatment, early spring nutrition, environmental loss, extra nutrition, farm water supplies, fertiliser plan, good plant count, grain aphid, grass control, introduced liqui-SAFE, late cercospera, leaves spot treatment, level of ion, little enthusiasm, N-MIN, nutrients lock, nutrients use efficiency, Oilseed rape, osr fertilisation, protected phosphate, rust vulnerability, seedbed nutrition, serious challenge, soil nitrogen level, spring barley volunteer, spring crop, spring nitrogen application, spring spray, urea ammonia nitrate, virus yellow, wheat bulbs, winter linseed, Yellow Rust
Putting Sound Science into Bio-Solutions
February 5, 2021
Alongside soil health enhancers, genetic advances, digital tools and better-tailored nutrition and chemistry, bio-solutions have an important part to play in a future increasingly less reliant on conventional crop protection inputs. This is clear from in-depth Agrii research into a… Read more
Tagged # bacteria, barley, bio-pesticides, bio-solutions, biological crop protection, biosolutions in farming, crop performance, farming, fungi, OSR, PGR
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – Winter 2020
November 16, 2020
November/December 2020 This season is certainly justifying our decision to stick with OSR, albeit on wider rotations than in the past. We have only lost two very small fields so far despite almost no pyrethroid spraying. What’s more, coming into… Read more
Tagged # agronomy advice, black - grass, cover crops, crop performance, crop proctection, crops, disease problems, glyphosate, Oilseed rape, OSR, prothiconazole, Soil structure, wheat
Disciplined Spring Care Vital for Backward Winter Wheats
February 5, 2020
Winter wheats that have struggled through the wettest early season on record or established from very late sowing offer attractive margin-earning opportunities in a season in which supplies are set to be particularly tight. But only with well-targeted and disciplined… Read more
Tagged # agri technical, Backward crops, crop performance, crop stress, david felce, increasing yield, maximise winte rcrop, nitrogen, p-reserve, PGR, septoria, Septoria and rust risks, spring, spring crops, Stow Longa, technical advice, tillering, weather, wheat, winter crops, winter wheat
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
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
New Disease Surveillance Programme to Help Wheat Growers Across the Country
July 10, 2014
A new disease surveillance programme to help wheat growers across the country achieve the most cost-effective control of rusts and Septoria through the best-informed variety choice and fungicide use has been launched by research-led agronomy leader, Agrii this summer. The… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, crop performance, disease problems, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, wheat, yield potential
Making the Most of Time in Hand
July 10, 2014
Fingers firmly crossed, as we move rapidly towards harvesting we look like having the one thing we could really use on our side this year ….. time, writes Yorkshire-based agronomist, Sam Patchett. This is just as well with the sheer… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, crop performance, disease problems, harvest, Oilseed rape, OSR, Soil structure, wheat