Tagged: Spring Barley
Cropwatch South – June 2021
June 28, 2021
It’s all about preserving green leaf area now. We’ve done everything we can to set up some really great potential in our crops. While the lighter ground still needs some decent rain going forward, the heavy land probably has enough… Read more
Tagged # boron, cropwatch, green leaf, nutrition, OSR, south, Spring Barley, winter wheat
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – April 2021
April 19, 2021
A drier spell has enabled us to move ahead with our top dressing. However early spraying off was disrupted by the wet and wind. Every time the ground seems to be drying out enough to think about spring drilling another… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, blackgrass, bulb fly, byvd, crop performance, disease problems, jo bell, kws, kws zyatt, OSR, PGR, Spring Barley, spring cropping, spring crops, spring wheat, talking agronomy, what, wheat, Yellow Rust
Dorset iFarm Recipe defies the season to deliver Best-Ever Spring Barley
January 19, 2021
Despite the most challenging conditions they’ve ever known for the crop, Eastbury Estates averaged a record 9.3t/ha from the 100ha of spring barley they grew at Tarrant Gunville near Blandford in Dorset last season, maintaining the substantial productivity progress the… Read more
Tagged # Dorset, eastbury estates, gpr, jim, jim farquharson, Rhiza, Spring Barley, todd jex, variable rate, VR Nitrogen, yield
Dorset iFarm: spring barley and oat trials update
April 21, 2020
Agrii’s Dorset iFarm Coordinator, Mathew Hutchings, gives an update on the spring oat and barley variety trials, and the barley nitrogen response trials.
Tagged # Dorset, iFarm, nitrogen response, Spring Barley, spring oats
Sunk Island Spring Barley Drilling – March 2020
April 20, 2020
Sunk Island, Holderness Jim Carswell, R&D Manager for the Northern Region gives viewers an overview of the Spring Barley drilling at our Holderness iFarm site.
Tagged # HOLDERNESS, iFarm, Spring Barley, sunk island
Iain Richards Blog – Waiting on the ‘Indian summer’
October 5, 2015
By the time you read this in early October we should be revelling in the welcome, much belated ‘Indian summer’ promised by the forecasters. The August deluge meant we couldn’t get a lot of our wheats and spring barleys combined… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass, drilling, pre - em treatment, Spring Barley, wheat
Another season where patience will pay
March 16, 2015
With even much of our downland staying surprisingly wet, it’s been a frustrating time for spring barley drilling. Through February and into March everything was drying out nicely enough to get going with careful seedbed working in the right fields…. Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, drilling, Light Leaf Spot, PGR, SDHI, septoria, Spring Barley, spring crops, T0's, T1's
Barley Seed Choices for the Spring
November 11, 2014
Barry Barker – Arable Seed Product Manager Spring Barley remains by far the biggest spring crop in the UK. The effort breeders are putting into it is typified by the fact that there are 39 varieties currently in the Recommended… Read more
Tagged # barley, malting barley, Spring Barley
South: Unsettled conditions add to disease concerns
May 14, 2014
More than 100mm of rain in the past two weeks may have dispelled to our earlier concerns over fertiliser uptake but it has seriously limited spray days, reports Hampshire-based agronomist, Iain Richards. It has stretched our T0 to T1 intervals… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, crop performance, disease problems, Oilseed rape, OSR, Spring Barley, T- 2, T(-1), winter cereals, yield potential
Spring OSR Surprises
January 14, 2014
Spring cropping in general and OSR in particular provided a welcome lift to Andy Hole’s arable spirits at Bradle Farm near Wareham in Dorset last year. The spring barley that replaced much of the family partnership’s planned 200 ha of… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, harvest, Oilseed rape, OSR, Spring Barley, spring crops, weed control, yield potential