Tagged: iFarm
Dorset iFarm: spring barley and oat trials update
April 21, 2020
Agrii’s Dorset iFarm Coordinator, Mathew Hutchings, gives an update on the spring oat and barley variety trials, and the barley nitrogen response trials.
Tagged # Dorset, iFarm, nitrogen response, Spring Barley, spring oats
Dorset iFarm winter wheat trials update
April 20, 2020
iFarm agronomist Mathew Hutchings provides an update on how the winter wheat trials are faring at our Dorset iFarm site, looking at disease levels in the different varieties in the trial plots.
Tagged # Dorset, iFarm, septoria, tissue sampling, winter wheat
Sunk Island Spring Barley Drilling – March 2020
April 20, 2020
Sunk Island, Holderness Jim Carswell, R&D Manager for the Northern Region gives viewers an overview of the Spring Barley drilling at our Holderness iFarm site.
Tagged # HOLDERNESS, iFarm, Spring Barley, sunk island
Norfolk iFarm Update April 2020
April 8, 2020
Agronomist Darren Hooker introduces the work being undertaken by our team in East Anglia.
Black Isle ifarm update March 2020
April 1, 2020
Our northernmost agronomist, John Mason gives a quick introduction to the site and plots at our Black Isle ifarm site in the North of Scotland.
Tagged # black isle, Cromarty, iFarm, scotland
Leadenham iFarm update – 30th March 2020
March 30, 2020
An introduction to the Leadenham ifarm site given by Agronomist Fred Fowler
Tagged # iFarm, leadenham, lincolnshire
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
Best of British Wheat Update – What a difference a year makes
December 17, 2013
This year’s 15 tonne challenge crop for the Best of British Wheat initiative was drilled on the 21st September into warm soils with adequate moisture for good establishment. We’ve chosen to use Group 4 wheat variety Dickens, a recent addition… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomists, iFarm, R&D, wheat, wheat drilling
Counting our ‘mixed’ blessings
November 5, 2013
A decent amount of rain from mid-October has had mixed welcoming, I can tell you. In some cases it has hampered drilling while allowing our new crops to take full advantage of the nice open autumn that comes as such… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, autumn sowing, farming, iFarm, Oilseed rape, OSR, pests, R&D, rain, weather