Tagged: rain
Cropwatch South
June 3, 2020
Our wheats have been racing through their growth stages, going from GS32 to GS39 in only 14 days. As we start on our T2s, the boots are already swelling on some crops and it won’t be long before ears begin… Read more
Tagged # crops, disease, drought, dry, folpet, OWBM, rain, resistance, SDHI, T2, T3 Spray, wheat
CropWatch South – November 2019
November 26, 2019
A few reasonably dry days in the third week of October meant we got 80% of our planned winter barley into seedbeds allowing a pre-em before calling a halt to drilling. The headlands won’t be pretty. Still, at least it’s… Read more
Tagged # crop, crop establishment, drill, nutrition, rain, wheat, winter, winter wheat
South Crop Watch: A watery wait
February 19, 2014
After a run of cold days and nights when I last wrote back in November, we were hoping for a decent spell of winter to help our agronomy, writes Hampshire-based agronomist Iain Richards Since then we’ve hardly had a worthwhile… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, rain, weather, wheat, winter cereals, winter crops
Counting our ‘mixed’ blessings
November 5, 2013
A decent amount of rain from mid-October has had mixed welcoming, I can tell you. In some cases it has hampered drilling while allowing our new crops to take full advantage of the nice open autumn that comes as such… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, autumn sowing, farming, iFarm, Oilseed rape, OSR, pests, R&D, rain, weather