Tagged: technical
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
Vineyard Update: A challenging Start
March 25, 2020
Julian Searle, Fruit Agronomist. It’s been a wet and warm winter and unusually so. Unless temperatures fall we can expect bud burst in vines before the end of the month. Statistics from the Met office about the weather, if we… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, fruit, grapes, julian searle, rainfall, sunshine, technical, update, vines, vineyard, vineyard magazine, weather, wine
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
Expanded R&D Programme for Vegetable Growers
March 5, 2012
Field trials and technical advice on the most important vegetable agronomy problems are to be significantly expanded across the country from this season, following the creation of new industry leader, Agrii. Building on the complementary strengths of Masstock and UAP,… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomy, R&D, technical, technical advice, vegtables