Tagged: research
Agronomic Research Highlights Flea Beetle Battling Strategies
April 12, 2020
Extensive Agrii research across the country over the past 11 years shows that, like black-grass, a jigsaw of cultural controls can really help beat the beetle. In the same way as black-grass, though, these need to be applied alongside one… Read more
Exploring the Latest Cover Crop Thinking
December 12, 2019
In the right place, catch and cover cropping can noticeably improve the health, workability and resilience of soils as well as making valuable contributions to environmental protection. But to be cost-effective they need to be well-planned and managed. They must… Read more
Tagged # advice, Agrii SOils Improvement Group, below ground, cover crop, crop establishment, east anglia, establishment, kent, knowledge exchange, no-till, OSR Companion, research, root depth, rooting, six counties, soil health, Soil structure, spring crops, strip tillage, sugar beet, tips, tour
Research expansion delivers extra wheat variety intelligence
August 1, 2014
A comprehensive wheat variety planner that goes well beyond the current Recommended List to provide growers with extra national and local intelligence on a wide range of important varietal characteristics is one of the exciting decision support tools being developed… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, ifarms, OSR, recommended list, research, Stow Longa, wheat, wheat variety, wheat yields
Rotation-wide establishment trials yield valuable black-grass control guidance
July 9, 2013
Three years into the country’s most comprehensive rotation-wide black-grass management trial and dramatic differences between establishment regimes are providing Agrii agronomists with a wealth of valuable intelligence to improve cultural control strategies. Across plots with 96 different combinations of wheat… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, black - grass, black - grass problems, blackgrass, crop performance, crops, herbicides, research, trial plots, wheat