Tagged: dickens
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
England Reclaims World Wheat Record Title From Kiwis
December 11, 2015
It’s official, England has emphatically reclaimed the world wheat record from New Zealand. The 16.52 t/ha seed crop of Dickens grown by Rod Smith and his Beal Farm team on 11.3 ha on the Northumberland coast near Berwick-upon-Tweed has been… Read more
Tagged # 15t challenge, 16.52 t/ha yield, Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Beal farm, dickens, harvest, wheat, Wheat record, world wheat record
Northumberland Team Sets 2015 World Wheat Record With Master Seeds Crop of Dickens
September 25, 2015
Without fanfare and in the understated way typical of Northumberland and the Scottish borders, James, Rod and Vicky Smith and their Agrii team at Beal overlooking Holy Island set a new world wheat record in 2015 with a 16.52 t/ha… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, dickens, fungicide timings, harvest 2015, record yield, wheat, wheat yields, yield potential