Tagged: fungicide timings
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
Crucial canopy care
February 23, 2015
Some decent cold weather has really done our oilseed rape crops a favour, shrinking their canopies noticeably as we move into mid-February. Even so Green Area Indexes across all varieties in our Brotherton iFarm plots are a good 2.0 or… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, growth regulation, nitrogen utilisation, Oilseed rape, OSR, Pollen beetle, Septoria and rust risks, T1, T2
South: A decent spell of winter but not enough yet
February 16, 2015
Well, December and January have actually given us some winter this time round – albeit of a decidedly on-off nature and not enough to do a really decent job of knocking back either oilseed rape canopies or wheat disease levels…. Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, grassweed, OSR, septoria, T1, T2, weather, wheat, winter
Planning to be flexible
January 19, 2015
It’s only mid-January and there’s plenty enough winter still to come. However, this season is already bearing an uncanny resemblance to last time around. For the most part, our crops are well established and forward after another especially growthy autumn… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, Oilseed rape, OSR, Septoria and rust risks, technical advice, trial plots, Yellow Rust
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
Putting Seed Treatment First in Cereal Agronomy
June 9, 2014
Growers across the country should see seed treatment as the first step in their winter cereals agronomy rather than the last part of their seed purchasing, advises research-led agronomy leader, Agrii. “Our best growers appreciate that some of their biggest… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, disease problems, fungicide timings, seed treatment, T(-1)
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
CropWatch South: Another exciting season
April 14, 2014
It’s an exciting season once again, writes Hampshire based agronomist, Iain Richards. But in complete contrast to last year, for all the right reasons. The good dry spell in March allowed us to really get on with field operations. Exuberant… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, disease problems, fungicide timings, OSR, R&D, weather, wheat
Resistance Concerns Raise Septoria Control Bar
March 18, 2014
Declining levels of Septoria sensitivity to azoles and the acute vulnerability of SDHIs to resistance development means wheat growers must take particular care in managing high early pressures from the disease – not to mention significant threats from both yellow… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, R&D, Septoria and rust risks, wheat, wheat yields, Yellow and Brown Rust, Yellow Rust
Making the most of the developing crops
March 13, 2014
As we move into the second week of March we’ve still to see much in the way of winter, reports Yorkshire-based agronomist, Sam Patchett. A few night frosts certainly. But, with daytime temperatures comfortably above 5oC, our earlier-sown crops, in… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, Oilseed rape, OSR, PGR's, wheat, winter cereals