Tagged: soil
Would More Sulphur Improve Vegetable Quality?
April 27, 2021
RB209 states field brassicas need 50-75 kg SO3/ha/year, but trials with higher rates based on Dutch practices have led to better yields and crop quality asks Joe Johnson. The role of sulphur in supporting crop quality is widely recognised, but… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronmist, crop nutrition, crops, Improved yield, nitrogen, nutrients, nutrition, RB209, SO3, soil, soil health, sulphur, vegetable, vegetable crops, vegetable specialist, verimark, yield quality
Improving P availability for a broad range of crops
February 2, 2021
Our new product – Agrii-Start Release – works to Release Phosphorus tied up in the soil pools making P more available to plants. Built on our unique P-Reserve technology, Agrii-Start Release is particularly effective on High P Soils where there… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii carnoustie ifarm, agrii technical manager, agrii-start release, carnoustie ifarm site, early phosphorus availability, early root growth, higher root mass, improved root growth, inclusion of release, number of trial, phosphorus, phosphorus responsive vegetables, range of crop, responsive vegetables crop, root zone, shallow power cultivation, soil, soil phosphorus activator, spring barley trial, vegetables, vegetables crop
Putting Covers Into Context with Understanding
January 18, 2021
Cover and catch cropping may work well for many managing lighter and erosion-prone soils but for those on heavier and more difficult ground they remain very far from the answer to any sort of maiden’s prayer. The right cover crops… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agrii stow, Agrii trials, catch, catch crop, cover, cover crop benefits, cpver crops, crop, crop rotations, cultivation, cultivation techniques, david felce, heavy-alnd, soil, soil health, steve corbett, Stow Longa, winter what
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell – September
September 3, 2020
So far an average harvest. For which we must count ourselves fortunate. Things have been very varied, of course. Despite poorer competitiveness in the wet winter, our winter barley hasn’t been the disaster it could easily have been at 7.5… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, crops, iman, OSR, seed dressing, soil, sowing, take-off, vibrance duo
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