Tagged: Stow Longa
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
Right Rotational Regime Pays Dividends in Grassweed Management
July 29, 2020
Getting your rotational regime right on bad black-grass ground can be worth almost £650/ha/year in extra gross margin, together with a 25,000 seeds/m2/year reduction in weed seed return, reveal the latest results from the UK’s most comprehensive field-scale grassweed management… Read more
Tagged # arable, black - grass, blackgrass, cover crop, cultural control, grassweed, management, rotation, Stow Longa
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
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
Understanding Soil Biology to Build Future Farming Resilience
January 12, 2020
State-of-the-art DNA analysis is highlighting valuable differences in soil biology under different soil management regimes, offering the opportunity to secure real and lasting improvements in both crop and environmental health. As part of the Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST) programme,… Read more
Tagged # assist, ceh, cultivation, ecology, fertiliser, Melanie Armbruster, microbiome, molecular ecology, Richard Pywell, Rob Griffiths, soil biology, Soil DNA, soil health, Stow Longa, testing, Tim Goodall, trials
Understanding the real benefits of cover crops
March 11, 2016
Catch and cover crops can give good control of black-grass and useful improvements in soil structure, growers have been told. But everyone needs to choose and manage them with particular care. And no one should expect too much in the… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass problems, blackgrass, catch crops, cover crops, R&D, Stow Longa
Pioneering trials show the way in ‘stacking’ cultural Blackgrass controls
July 23, 2015
Latest results from 15 years of detailed, replicated trials across 25 ha of challenging heavy land at Agrii’s specialist black-grass technology centre at Stow Longa near Huntingdon show even the most difficult infestations can be cost-effectively overcome. But only with… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, black - grass problems, blackgrass, crop rotation, cultivations, drilling, ploughing, Stow Longa, technical advice, trial plots
Research expansion delivers extra wheat variety intelligence
August 1, 2014
A comprehensive wheat variety planner that goes well beyond the current Recommended List to provide growers with extra national and local intelligence on a wide range of important varietal characteristics is one of the exciting decision support tools being developed… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, ifarms, OSR, recommended list, research, Stow Longa, wheat, wheat variety, wheat yields
Securing Consistent Black-grass Control
July 26, 2012
Extensive, long-term Agrii trials on fields with particular black-grass problems are revealing the best ways of consistently driving down weed populations despite the vagaries of the weather and growing levels of herbicide resistance. At the company’s primary black-grass management site… Read more
Tagged # black - grass management, black - grass problems, chemical costs, controlling black- grass, herbicide resistance, seed rate and drilling date, Stow Longa, weed population, weed populations, wheat variety