Tagged: Linseed
Making Sustainability Work on the North Hampshire Down
March 3, 2021
Net Zero is already a reality at Faccombe Estates on the Hampshire-Berkshire border near Newbury, with their comprehensive 2020 Farm Carbon Calculator report showing a net sequestration of over 1800 tonnes CO2/year. But director Al Brooks and his team are… Read more
Tagged # agriculture, Agrii, agronomy, Faccombe Estates, farming, Linseed, livestock, min-till, net zero, Newbury, nutrition, plough, sheep, spring crops, Sustainability
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
Sam Patchett Blog: Difficult Spring Spraying
May 3, 2016
With little let-up in the weather into early April, Sam Patchett sees many northern growers fast running out of grass weed control options and facing increasingly difficult spring spraying compromises. It’s been unrelenting. Again, things were drying out nicely in… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, disease control, grass weed control, Linseed, Oilseed rape, OSR, septoria, T0, T1, weed control
Southern harvest moves up a gear
August 22, 2013
Harvesting moved up at least one gear across central southern England in the third week of August, reports Agrii agronomist Iain Richards, although progress and performance remains decidedly mixed. Some of his growers in south Hampshire are set to finish… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, barley, harvest, Linseed, OSR, wheat, wheat yields, yield
RAINING BIRDS – MAKES A CHANGE FROM CATS AND DOGS!!!
February 9, 2012
With temperatures at -30 degrees in the Ukraine and Russia the birds are freezing in the air and crashing to the ground. Saves some cartridges I guess! Where possible let’s look after our feathered friends at this cold time where… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, barley, bio fuels, Brown Rust, farming, freezing temperatures, Linseed, malting barley, Masstock, milling wheat, Oilseed rape, Origin, OSR exports, Spring Barley, trial plots, UAP, Yellow Rust