Tagged: soil
Eight ways to battle the beetle
July 14, 2020
An integrated approach to controlling cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) is vital says Agrii seed technical specialist David Leaper. “This year, there’s less appetite to plant OSR after two particularly difficult years with dry conditions at drilling and losses… Read more
Deeper Thinking For The Best Wet Winter Recovery
May 4, 2020
How well we recover from last winter is far more about what we grow and how we grow it after the crops we have in ground this season than it is about how we manage land that has been too… Read more
Tagged # autumn, black - grass, blackgrass, crop, establishment, Felce, harvest, Rhiza, soil, soil health, sol recovery, spring, Stow Longa, stow longs, winter
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
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
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell – November/December
October 26, 2019
As we move rapidly towards the end of the year, it’s time to get our winter cereals in on high black-grass risk ground. The rain has been a godsend in giving us just the flush of weed growth we have… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, BYDV, crop protection, crops, farming, seed dressing, soil, wheat, winter cereals
Setting-up Heavy Land for Spring Sowing without the Plough
October 3, 2019
Heavy ground for spring sowing needs to go into the winter both weatherable and weatherproof as well as compaction free and bacterially active, visitors to the start of a state-of-the-art iFarm soil management trial in Lincolnshire were told this autumn…. Read more
Tagged # andrew ward, cultivation, lincolnshire, philip wright, soil, soil expert, spring crops
Soil & Water Day Provides Topical Advice
December 3, 2012
More than 70 farmers and agronomists took the opportunity of another washout day for fieldwork to explore highly topical aspects of seedbed management at the second Soil and Water Management Centre event at the Lincolnshire showground. The day – organised… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomists, black - grass, compaction, event, experts, farming, soil, Soil and Water