Tagged: spring
Cropwatch South – February 2021
March 5, 2021
Another season of fancy drilling footwork sees us with three distinct types of wheat – all looking promising but each requiring a different approach to fulfil that promise. The crops drilled on our low black-grass ground in late September are… Read more
Tagged # crop nutrition, cropping, cropwatch south, OSR, oxfordshire, south, spring, winter wheat
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
Disciplined Spring Care Vital for Backward Winter Wheats
February 5, 2020
Winter wheats that have struggled through the wettest early season on record or established from very late sowing offer attractive margin-earning opportunities in a season in which supplies are set to be particularly tight. But only with well-targeted and disciplined… Read more
Tagged # agri technical, Backward crops, crop performance, crop stress, david felce, increasing yield, maximise winte rcrop, nitrogen, p-reserve, PGR, septoria, Septoria and rust risks, spring, spring crops, Stow Longa, technical advice, tillering, weather, wheat, winter crops, winter wheat