Tagged: Pollen beetle
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
Sam Patchett Blog: Careful early season management
February 22, 2016
Despite the wetness, most crops are coming through the winter well. But they will need particularly careful early season management. As it’s been wet, windy or both since we were ready to go on with our post-em sprays in the… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Light Leaf Spot, PGR's, Pollen beetle, Septoria and rust risks, shallow rooting, wheat varieties
South: It’s an ill wind….
April 14, 2015
The one thing we’ve had more than enough of this past month has been wind. While it’s been incredibly frustrating for spraying and spreading, combined with less than half our average March rainfall this has really helped spring seedbed preparation…. Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, Light Leaf Spot, OSR, Pollen beetle, septoria, T0, T1, T2
Crucial canopy care
February 23, 2015
Some decent cold weather has really done our oilseed rape crops a favour, shrinking their canopies noticeably as we move into mid-February. Even so Green Area Indexes across all varieties in our Brotherton iFarm plots are a good 2.0 or… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, growth regulation, nitrogen utilisation, Oilseed rape, OSR, Pollen beetle, Septoria and rust risks, T1, T2
Pushing for yield from a strong platform
April 2, 2014
Our hybrid winter rape crops have developed especially well this spring, reports Midlands agronomist, Harry Abell. Relatively cool conditions have taken the froth off the early growth so they’ve gone into April moving from green to yellow bud – and… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, disease problems, insecticide, Light Leaf Spot, Oilseed rape, OSR, Pollen beetle
Keeping on top of our game
March 26, 2013
As we move through March our winter crops are, thankfully, starting to pick-up nicely from their early N. Although a lot of the wheats have plenty of catching-up to do, earlier drilled crops are looking well. And decently established OSR hybrids,… Read more
Tagged # disease levels, OSR, Pollen beetle, winter crops