Tagged: R&D
Vegetable Trials Update
December 18, 2021
By David Townley, Agrii Agronomist/Technical Support Climate change appears to be delaying our cold winter period later into each year, leaving us with warmer and wetter autumns which provides ideal conditions for the develop of diseases of our vegetable crops…. Read more
Tagged # agrii veg, agronomy, david townly, disease, fungicide, R&D, reseatrch, trails, veg, veg crops, vegetable trials
Agrii modernises the Master Seeds brand to emphasise the strengths and benefits of an integrated approach to agronomy.
February 3, 2020
For decades Master Seeds has been synonymous with seed quality and excellence. From the Spring of 2020 the Master Seeds brand will receive a new look to more closely align it with the core Agrii branding. This new branding represents… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, assurance, blue, change, growth, MasterSeeds, prize, quality, R&D, Rhiza, seed
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
Understanding the real benefits of cover crops
March 11, 2016
Catch and cover crops can give good control of black-grass and useful improvements in soil structure, growers have been told. But everyone needs to choose and manage them with particular care. And no one should expect too much in the… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass problems, blackgrass, catch crops, cover crops, R&D, Stow Longa
Developing the Most Integrated Septoria Management
January 22, 2016
Thoroughly integrated management, employing an extended armoury of agronomic tools alongside the best available chemistry has become every bit as essential in cost-effective wheat Septoria control as it is in tackling the scourge of black-grass, believes Agrii head of R&D,… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide programmes, R&D, septoria, variety choice
Progress update from Fruit iFarm at EMR
November 11, 2014
Planting has continued this year at Agrii’s 1ha demonstration site for fruit production, at East Malling Research in Kent. The apples and pears planted last year have been joined by cherries, plums and the first trees of what will be… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, East Malling Research, EMR, fruit, ifarms, R&D
Raising the Wheat Performance Bar with Nutrition
October 3, 2014
Wheat nutrition needs to go well beyond conventional N, P and K thinking if yields are to be cost-effectively pushed ahead, according to Agrii head of crop science, David Langton. The latest information from our Best of British Wheat 15… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomists, N p K, nutrition, Precision Farming, R&D, Soilquest, wheat, wheat yields, winter cereals, yield potential
Northern Ingenuity and Engineering Revolutionises OSR Trials Establishment
September 17, 2014
Large-scale oilseed rape trial establishment has been revolutionised at Agrii’s new Bishop Burton Technology Centre and across its expanded northern England trials network this season thanks to the ingenuity of North Yorkshire field trials specialist, NDSM Ltd and the skill… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, bishop burton, drilling, establishment, Oilseed rape, OSR, R&D
Crucial Second Wheat Management Improvements Identified in First Insight Report
June 18, 2014
Second wheat management is the topical subject of the first in a series of Agri-intelligence Insight Reports from research-lead agronomy leader, Agrii published this summer. Bringing together information from more than 10 years of Agrii research and advisory practice, the… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, R&D, wheat, wheat yields, yield potential
Placing extra priority on early OSR agronomy
June 9, 2014
Maximising oilseed rape establishment and early growth must be particular priorities this autumn in the absence of neonicotinoid seed dressings, growers were advised at the specialist AgriiFocus OSR Day earlier this month. “Getting crops up and running as rapidly and… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agriifocus, agronomist, agronomists, disease problems, Neonics ban, Oilseed rape, OSR, pests, R&D, yield potential