Tagged: OSR
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
Cropwatch South – October 2020
October 16, 2020
We’ve certainly been glad to move on from the 2020 harvest. While extremely variable, it wasn’t actually as bad as we feared in many cases. Our November/December wheat drillings, in particular, were a pleasant surprise. A combination of better prices… Read more
Tagged # BYDV, CSFB, OSR, winter barley, winter wheat
Kent ifarm update
October 14, 2020
The stripper header story continues. Neil Harper comments on the drilling and subsequent emergence of winter oilseed rape into the stripped straw field in Kent. This is the 2nd year of drilling into stripped straw following the 2nd wheat last… Read more
Tagged # companion cropping, crops, drilling, iFarm, kent, OSR, stripper header, wosr
Escaping the flea beetle threat
October 3, 2020
Companion cropping is providing oilseed rape on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border with good protection from cabbage stem flea beetle damage while preserving soil moisture to encourage early strong growth. Manager, Kevin Smith is looking to hide his oilseed rape under a… Read more
Tagged # buckwheat, com, companion crop, CSFB, Flea Beetle, oilseed, OSR, rape, todd jex
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
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