Tagged: fertiliser
Understanding Soil Biology to Build Future Farming Resilience
January 12, 2020
State-of-the-art DNA analysis is highlighting valuable differences in soil biology under different soil management regimes, offering the opportunity to secure real and lasting improvements in both crop and environmental health. As part of the Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST) programme,… Read more
Tagged # assist, ceh, cultivation, ecology, fertiliser, Melanie Armbruster, microbiome, molecular ecology, Richard Pywell, Rob Griffiths, soil biology, Soil DNA, soil health, Stow Longa, testing, Tim Goodall, trials
Improving Crop Nutrition with Grain Analyses
November 22, 2019
Post-harvest grain analyses are proving a valuable aid to improving crop nutrition, reveals extensive research on Agrii iFarms across the country. Co-ordinated by R&D manager, Jim Carswell, the most recent studies involved some 300 samples of winter wheat, OSR, winter… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, Cereals, fertiliser, grain analyses, iFarm, lancrop, OSR, R&D, seedbed, soil, technical, winter wheat
Vicki Brooks Blog: Another decent spring cropping start
May 3, 2016
Going into mid-April, we’ve really profited from a cooler than average March with a reasonable amount of rainfall but sufficient dry weather to get plenty of timely fieldwork completed – spring drilling as well as fertiliser application on winter crops… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, barley, blog, cover crops, fertiliser, OSR, septoria, T1's, T2, wheat
Early Spring Barley Nutrition Makes all the Difference
January 22, 2016
The best early nutrition can make all the difference to spring malting barley performance, reveal two years of research centre and farm trials throughout Scotland and northern England. Run across Agrii’s network of 10 arable technology centres and ifarms from… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, crop nutrition, drilling, fertiliser, manganese, micro-nutrient, seed bed, soil nutrition