Tagged: variety choice
Raising the Quality Wheat Bar in Dorset
May 3, 2016
Together, the Moderski family’s KAM Farming and Yuill Farms almost equalled Rod Smith’s world wheat record with a 16.39 t/ha wheat crop at Friar Waddon just outside Weymouth last year. Not only this, but the entire 12.2 ha field of… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, Crusoe, milling wheats, OSR, skyfall, variety choice, wheat, wheat yields, yield potential
Developing the Most Integrated Septoria Management
January 22, 2016
Thoroughly integrated management, employing an extended armoury of agronomic tools alongside the best available chemistry has become every bit as essential in cost-effective wheat Septoria control as it is in tackling the scourge of black-grass, believes Agrii head of R&D,… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide programmes, R&D, septoria, variety choice
Managing Growing Wheat Foliar Disease Risks
September 20, 2013
Wheat growers across the UK need to make the best possible use of all the agronomic risk management tools at their disposal to combat the escalating foliar disease challenge, believes a leading agronomic researcher. Agrii head of agronomy, Colin Lloyd… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, disease problems, fungicide choice, leaf disease, R&D, seed treatment, technical advice, variety choice, wheat, wheat variety
Plan and manage early wheat drilling with care
June 20, 2013
Any early wheat drilling this autumn must be planned and managed with particular care to avoid adding unnecessary extra business risk, warns Agrii trials project manager, James Southgate. Reviewing the R&D team’s extensive drill timing work over the past four… Read more
Tagged # autumn weather risk, black - grass, BYDV threat, drilling decisions, dry seedbeds, early wheat drilling, grass weed problems, increased disease, lodging pressures, lodging susceptible crops, seed rates, seedbed condition, Septoria and rust risks, spring treatment, T(-1), variety choice, yield potential