Tagged: crop performance
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
Latest research highlights importance of Autumn decisions in what foliar disease control
June 9, 2014
Wheat variety and seed treatment choices at T(-1) can markedly improve the efficacy and flexibility of spring fungicide spraying, reveal the latest in the long-standing series of integrated disease management trials at Agrii’s Throws Farm Technology Centre. So much so… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, crop performance, disease problems, R&D, T(-1), technical advice, Throws Farm
Plan ahead to minimise major harvest vulnerability
May 20, 2014
UK growers are highly vulnerable to cereal and oilseed rape markets which show signs of coming under increasing pressure , warns Agrii head of crop marketing, David Neale speaking to growers attending the first in a series of special breakfast… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, crop markets, crop performance, crop prices, Glencore Grain, harvest
Well-structured crops could profit from late foliar nitrogen
May 14, 2014
Extra late nitrogen could be particularly valuable in making the most of some of the best structured winter oilseed rape canopies, ADAS specialist Dr Pete Berry has seen in recent years. Speaking to more than 100 growers and agronomists attending… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, agronomists, crop performance, disease problems, Oilseed rape, OSR, R&D, yield potential
South: Unsettled conditions add to disease concerns
May 14, 2014
More than 100mm of rain in the past two weeks may have dispelled to our earlier concerns over fertiliser uptake but it has seriously limited spray days, reports Hampshire-based agronomist, Iain Richards. It has stretched our T0 to T1 intervals… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, crop performance, disease problems, Oilseed rape, OSR, Spring Barley, T- 2, T(-1), winter cereals, yield potential
Full of Northern Promise
May 12, 2014
April proved a welcome relief from March in allowing us to catch-up with herbicide spraying, in particular, without have to resort to the sort of widespread tank-mixing unorthodoxy that seemed likely a month back, writes Yorkshire-based agronomist, Sam Patchett. With… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, crop performance, disease problems, fungicide timings, iFarm events, slug control, T(-1), T2, Yellow Rust