Tagged: OSR
Cropwatch South – April 2022
April 8, 2022
With temperatures varying by as much as 18oC in a day, our crops have been under more than their fair share of stress lately. A lot of sun and sharp easterly winds drying the ground out surprisingly rapidly after the… Read more
Tagged # boron, crop stress, crop watch, cropwatch, farmers, grassweeds, guardian, manganese, nitrogen, OSR, Spray, Spring Barley, stress, stress management, T0, T1, vigour
Conversion Therapy in Cambridgeshire
March 1, 2022
Spring barley yields were well down in the first year of Cambridgeshire grower, David Felce’s long-term trial exploring a more regenerative approach to farming his difficult Hanslope series clay at Midloe Grange, Southoe just off the AI near St Neots…. Read more
Tagged # agri business, agrii soil health, agrii srs, conventional agriculture, converting to regen, david felce, direct drilling, Green Horizons, headland, Kuhn Auroch, midloe grange, OSR, philip wright, regen farming, regenerative agriculture, soil health, soil resilience, soil resilience strategy, Spring Barley, srs, sustainable farming, winter crops
Cropwatch South – June 2021
June 28, 2021
It’s all about preserving green leaf area now. We’ve done everything we can to set up some really great potential in our crops. While the lighter ground still needs some decent rain going forward, the heavy land probably has enough… Read more
Tagged # boron, cropwatch, green leaf, nutrition, OSR, south, Spring Barley, winter wheat
Kinross iFarm Update – May 2021
May 17, 2021
Agronomist and iFarm coordinator Iain Anderson with a look at the OSR and Cereal plots on the new Kinross iFarm May 6th 2021 Cereals OSR
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – April 2021
April 19, 2021
A drier spell has enabled us to move ahead with our top dressing. However early spraying off was disrupted by the wet and wind. Every time the ground seems to be drying out enough to think about spring drilling another… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, blackgrass, bulb fly, byvd, crop performance, disease problems, jo bell, kws, kws zyatt, OSR, PGR, Spring Barley, spring cropping, spring crops, spring wheat, talking agronomy, what, wheat, Yellow Rust
Cropwatch South – February 2021
March 5, 2021
Another season of fancy drilling footwork sees us with three distinct types of wheat – all looking promising but each requiring a different approach to fulfil that promise. The crops drilled on our low black-grass ground in late September are… Read more
Tagged # crop nutrition, cropping, cropwatch south, OSR, oxfordshire, south, spring, winter wheat
Putting Sound Science into Bio-Solutions
February 5, 2021
Alongside soil health enhancers, genetic advances, digital tools and better-tailored nutrition and chemistry, bio-solutions have an important part to play in a future increasingly less reliant on conventional crop protection inputs. This is clear from in-depth Agrii research into a… Read more
Tagged # bacteria, barley, bio-pesticides, bio-solutions, biological crop protection, biosolutions in farming, crop performance, farming, fungi, OSR, PGR
Enhanced iFarm establishment approach restores faith in Oilseed Rape
February 3, 2021
Putting all the pieces of a well-researched oilseed rape establishment jigsaw in place has paid handsome dividends for Jim Farquharson and his Agrii agronomist, Todd Jex at the Dorset iFarm near Blandford this season. Unlike 2019 when only 33 ha… Read more
Tagged # buckwheat, companion crop, crop, CROP MANAGEMENT, CSFB, Dorset, establishment, GROWING OSR, iFarm, OSR, PLAN, SUCCESSFUL OSR
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – Winter 2020
November 16, 2020
November/December 2020 This season is certainly justifying our decision to stick with OSR, albeit on wider rotations than in the past. We have only lost two very small fields so far despite almost no pyrethroid spraying. What’s more, coming into… Read more
Tagged # agronomy advice, black - grass, cover crops, crop performance, crop proctection, crops, disease problems, glyphosate, Oilseed rape, OSR, prothiconazole, Soil structure, wheat
Cropwatch South – November 2020
November 14, 2020
This October was even wetter than last for us; the wettest on record for many, in fact, with anywhere from 190–230 mm in the rain gauge across my geography. A brief respite in the middle of the month allowed us… Read more
Tagged # astrokerb, autumn cropping, avadex, BYDV, CSFB, early sown, fingicide, OSR, OSR Companion, osr phoma, winter cereals