Tagged: explorer
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
Tagged # abinbev, agrii-start, AGRII-START PLUSES, barley, beet lifting, beetle larval count, budweiser, careful gai assessment, cover cropping, crop, crop performance, cruiser seed treatment, early spring nutrition, environmental loss, explorer, 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, nitrogen, nutrients lock, nutrients use efficiency, Oilseed rape, osr fertilisation, protected phosphate, rust vulnerability, seedbed nutrition, septoria, 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
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
Talking Agrnomy with Jo Bell
April 4, 2020
Calling a halt to Skyfall drilling in mid-March, we have between zero and 30% of our planned wheat acreage in the ground. Altogether we have labelled around 70% of our undrilled fields green or amber in the traffic light system… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, barley, beans, brexit, ceh, Environment, explorer, foliar nutrition, lancrop, OSR, Pollen beetle, septoria, skyfall, soil, Stow Longa, technical, wheat