Tagged: PGR
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
Nailing the Digital Benefits in Essex
June 1, 2020
Just because you have the ability to vary inputs doesn’t mean you should. A.S. Clark and Son, based at Langley Lawn Farm near Saffron Walden in Essex, has used precision farming technology since 2010. But Sam Fordham, responsible for precision… Read more
Tagged # ADAS, Digital, DTF, essex farm, Farm data, farm digital technology farm, input, NVDI, PGR, Rhiza, sam fordham, technology, variable rate, VR, VR applicaiton
Disciplined Spring Care Vital for Backward Winter Wheats
February 5, 2020
Winter wheats that have struggled through the wettest early season on record or established from very late sowing offer attractive margin-earning opportunities in a season in which supplies are set to be particularly tight. But only with well-targeted and disciplined… Read more
Tagged # agri technical, Backward crops, crop performance, crop stress, david felce, increasing yield, maximise winte rcrop, nitrogen, p-reserve, PGR, septoria, Septoria and rust risks, spring, spring crops, Stow Longa, technical advice, tillering, weather, wheat, winter crops, winter wheat
Another season where patience will pay
March 16, 2015
With even much of our downland staying surprisingly wet, it’s been a frustrating time for spring barley drilling. Through February and into March everything was drying out nicely enough to get going with careful seedbed working in the right fields…. Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, drilling, Light Leaf Spot, PGR, SDHI, septoria, Spring Barley, spring crops, T0's, T1's
Preparing for the consequences of a mild winter
February 12, 2014
Here in Yorkshire there seems to be little, if any, prospect of the good week or two of winter cold that would have been ideal for our crops, writes Agrii agronomist, Sam Patchett. One after another, the Atlantic depressions have… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass problems, blackgrass, crop performance, disease problems, pest control, PGR, weather, yield potential