Tagged: OSR
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell – September
September 3, 2020
So far an average harvest. For which we must count ourselves fortunate. Things have been very varied, of course. Despite poorer competitiveness in the wet winter, our winter barley hasn’t been the disaster it could easily have been at 7.5… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, crops, iman, OSR, seed dressing, soil, sowing, take-off, vibrance duo
Trials Highlight Two Critical CSFB Management Success Factors
August 5, 2020
Two years of Essex farm trials on difficult heavy ground under intense cabbage stem flea beetle pressure show that if you only do two things to combat the pest this autumn they should be sowing a fast-developing variety and giving… Read more
Tagged # arable, buckwheat, canopy, companion crop, crop, CSFB, Flea Beetle, growth, management, oilseed, OSR, pest, rape
Eight ways to battle the beetle
July 14, 2020
An integrated approach to controlling cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) is vital says Agrii seed technical specialist David Leaper. “This year, there’s less appetite to plant OSR after two particularly difficult years with dry conditions at drilling and losses… Read more
South Wales iFarm OSR update
April 20, 2020
South Wales agronomist, Chris Taylor, gives an update on the OSR plots at our Bridgend iFarm site.
Tagged # Bridgend, OSR, South Wales iFarm
Agronomic Research Highlights Flea Beetle Battling Strategies
April 12, 2020
Extensive Agrii research across the country over the past 11 years shows that, like black-grass, a jigsaw of cultural controls can really help beat the beetle. In the same way as black-grass, though, these need to be applied alongside one… Read more
Talking Agrnomy with Jo Bell
April 4, 2020
Calling a halt to Skyfall drilling in mid-March, we have between zero and 30% of our planned wheat acreage in the ground. Altogether we have labelled around 70% of our undrilled fields green or amber in the traffic light system… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, barley, beans, brexit, ceh, Environment, explorer, foliar nutrition, lancrop, OSR, Pollen beetle, septoria, skyfall, soil, Stow Longa, technical, wheat
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
Raising the Quality Wheat Bar in Dorset
May 3, 2016
Together, the Moderski family’s KAM Farming and Yuill Farms almost equalled Rod Smith’s world wheat record with a 16.39 t/ha wheat crop at Friar Waddon just outside Weymouth last year. Not only this, but the entire 12.2 ha field of… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, Crusoe, milling wheats, OSR, skyfall, variety choice, wheat, wheat yields, yield potential
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
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