Tagged: crop
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
Enhanced iFarm establishment approach restores faith in Oilseed Rape
February 3, 2021
Putting all the pieces of a well-researched oilseed rape establishment jigsaw in place has paid handsome dividends for Jim Farquharson and his Agrii agronomist, Todd Jex at the Dorset iFarm near Blandford this season. Unlike 2019 when only 33 ha… Read more
Tagged # buckwheat, companion crop, crop, CROP MANAGEMENT, CSFB, Dorset, establishment, GROWING OSR, iFarm, OSR, PLAN, SUCCESSFUL OSR
Putting Covers Into Context with Understanding
January 18, 2021
Cover and catch cropping may work well for many managing lighter and erosion-prone soils but for those on heavier and more difficult ground they remain very far from the answer to any sort of maiden’s prayer. The right cover crops… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii stow, Agrii trials, catch, catch crop, cover, cover crop benefits, cpver crops, crop, crop rotations, cultivation, cultivation techniques, david felce, heavy-alnd, soil, soil health, steve corbett, Stow Longa, winter what
No-Till Contract Farming Recipe Proves Its Worth on the Cotswolds
November 11, 2020
Diversity, flexibility and capacity are the cornerstones of the successful no-till contract farming business built by Toby Baxter for a growing number of landowners on the western edge of the Cotswolds over the past decade. He and his Agrii agronomist,… Read more
Tagged # arable, baxter, crop, DIVERSITY, GRASS, LEYS, MIXED FARM, No-Till Contract Farming, sheep, SUCCESS, TURNIPS, varieties, vickery, wheat, winter wheat
Trials Highlight Two Critical CSFB Management Success Factors
August 5, 2020
Two years of Essex farm trials on difficult heavy ground under intense cabbage stem flea beetle pressure show that if you only do two things to combat the pest this autumn they should be sowing a fast-developing variety and giving… Read more
Tagged # arable, buckwheat, canopy, companion crop, crop, CSFB, Flea Beetle, growth, management, oilseed, OSR, pest, rape
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 – November 2019
November 26, 2019
A few reasonably dry days in the third week of October meant we got 80% of our planned winter barley into seedbeds allowing a pre-em before calling a halt to drilling. The headlands won’t be pretty. Still, at least it’s… Read more
Tagged # crop, crop establishment, drill, nutrition, rain, wheat, winter, winter wheat