Tagged: Spring Barley
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
Extra Supplies of Quality Spring Seed
February 14, 2013
Growers wishing to make-up for failed winter plantings in the face of serious spring seed shortages this season need not take the risk of using imported seed of uncertain quality from varieties unproven under UK conditions, stresses Agrii northern seed… Read more
Tagged # challenging season, cropping opportunities, MasterSeeds, naked oats, Spring Barley, spring plantings, spring rape, spring seed, spring wheat, Take-off seed dressing
Yorkshire Growers Find Ideal Solution to Extend Arable Rotation
August 16, 2012
Naked oats have proved an excellent way of extending the wheat and oilseed rape rotation at Charlie and Alaric Booth’s Smeathalls Farm, Knottingley in West Yorkshire to improve margins and reduce risk. Now into their third season of growing the… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, arable business, arable rotation, controlling grassweeds, feed wheat contracts, low growing costs, naked oats, Oilseed rape, oilseed rape rotation, Peas, reduce risk, resistant ryegrass, Spring Barley, wheat, winter barley