Tagged: OSR
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
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: Clearing the decks for spring barley drilling
February 29, 2016
Two weeks ago much of our oilseed rape was racing towards stem extension; it looked like we might have to bite the bullet and give wheats carrying worrying levels of active yellow rust a pre-T0; and spring sowing seemed a… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, cultivations, Light Leaf Spot, nutrition, OSR, septoria, Yellow Rust
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