Tagged: Oilseed rape
CropWatch South: September 2019
September 26, 2019
Another successful harvest behind us and we’d be in good spirits if it wasn’t for the flea beetle storm of the past week and bone-dry soils. The rain eventually came just in time for most of last season’s wheats. Because… Read more
Tagged # black - grass, crop performance, crops, drilling, Oilseed rape, technical advice, weather, wheat, wheat drilling, wheat yields, winter cereals, winter crops
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
Vicki Brooks Blog: Getting the early balance right
February 29, 2016
Considering how much rain and how little frost we’ve had, most of our ground is still walking remarkably well. This is mainly due to the impressive moisture pumping ability of actively growing crops in an exceptionally mild winter with plenty… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Light Leaf Spot, nutrition, Oilseed rape, OSR, rooting, septoria, T0's, technical advice, trial plots, wheat, winter wheat
Iain Richards Blog: Not enough wetness to dampen the spirits ….. yet
February 8, 2016
The wettest January in recent memory on top of a back-end with so few sunshine hours that the ground never had a chance to dry out when it wasn’t raining certainly means we have more than enough water about. Any… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Oilseed rape, OSR, PGR's, T0, T1's, wheat
Iain Richards Blog: Later-drilled crops profit from open autumn
November 30, 2015
After the particularly cold September, the milder-than-average October and November have been just what we needed. It’s been a bit of a struggle for spray days in the past couple of weeks. But the extra soil moisture and continued warmth… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, blackgrass, drilling, improve crop establishment, Oilseed rape, OSR, Phoma, seedbed, wheat
Vicki Brooks Blog – An encouraging all-round start
November 9, 2015
Helped by a decent amount of seedbed moisture and some welcome early October warmth, our oilseed rape has got off to a better start than last year. The bulk has profited from good sowing conditions in August and the first… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, agronomists, blackgrass, harvest, Oilseed rape, OSR, potatoes, prei-em, sugar beet
All set for a good run-in to harvest
June 12, 2015
Despite some seriously cold nights through much of May we’ve seen remarkably even oilseed rape pod set from a good and not overly-prolonged flowering. Pod density is far from excessive and most of our crops are well-structured and standing strongly… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, agronomists, flowering, Oilseed rape, OSR, pod shatter resistance, spraying, T2, wheat
Much-needed rain gives a ‘fresh’ perspective
May 12, 2015
As we approached the end of April I was getting seriously worried. We’d had less than half our average rainfall for the second month in a row and our spring crops, in particular, were crying out for a drink. The… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, disease problems, Oilseed rape, OSR, T1, T2, wheat, yield potential
Playing catch-up after a steady start
April 14, 2015
It’s been very much steady as we go through March into the start of April, with cold nights holding soil temperatures, crop growth and our main yield robbers back nicely. But the Easter warmth has seen everything start to pick-up… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Oilseed rape, OSR, sclerotinia, septoria pressure, T1, T2, wheat
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