Tagged: weather
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
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
CropWatch South: September 2019
September 26, 2019
Another successful harvest behind us and we’d be in good spirits if it wasn’t for the flea beetle storm of the past week and bone-dry soils. The rain eventually came just in time for most of last season’s wheats. Because… Read more
Tagged # black - grass, crop performance, crops, drilling, Oilseed rape, technical advice, weather, wheat, wheat drilling, wheat yields, winter cereals, winter crops
South: A decent spell of winter but not enough yet
February 16, 2015
Well, December and January have actually given us some winter this time round – albeit of a decidedly on-off nature and not enough to do a really decent job of knocking back either oilseed rape canopies or wheat disease levels…. Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, fungicide choice, fungicide timings, grassweed, OSR, septoria, T1, T2, weather, wheat, winter
CropWatch South: Another exciting season
April 14, 2014
It’s an exciting season once again, writes Hampshire based agronomist, Iain Richards. But in complete contrast to last year, for all the right reasons. The good dry spell in March allowed us to really get on with field operations. Exuberant… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, disease problems, fungicide timings, OSR, R&D, weather, wheat
South Crop Watch: A watery wait
February 19, 2014
After a run of cold days and nights when I last wrote back in November, we were hoping for a decent spell of winter to help our agronomy, writes Hampshire-based agronomist Iain Richards Since then we’ve hardly had a worthwhile… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, agronomists, rain, weather, wheat, winter cereals, winter crops
Preparing for the consequences of a mild winter
February 12, 2014
Here in Yorkshire there seems to be little, if any, prospect of the good week or two of winter cold that would have been ideal for our crops, writes Agrii agronomist, Sam Patchett. One after another, the Atlantic depressions have… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, black - grass problems, blackgrass, crop performance, disease problems, pest control, PGR, weather, yield potential
South Cropwatch: Welcoming the winter
November 25, 2013
Winter’s much heralded arrival this week is very welcome. Let’s hope it’s a real change to colder conditions, though, not just another weather wobble. A run of cold nights and days and it won’t be long before soil temperatures will… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, agronomists, crop performance, Oilseed rape, OSR, weather
Counting our ‘mixed’ blessings
November 5, 2013
A decent amount of rain from mid-October has had mixed welcoming, I can tell you. In some cases it has hampered drilling while allowing our new crops to take full advantage of the nice open autumn that comes as such… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, autumn sowing, farming, iFarm, Oilseed rape, OSR, pests, R&D, rain, weather
David Neale Blog – What a difference a year makes?
October 10, 2013
Dare I suggest we needed some moisture this week (forecasted) to break down some pretty solid lumps to get a decent seedbed for the remaining acres. This was highlighted at our Annual Ploughing Match on the next door Estate at… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, barley, disease problems, grain stocks, harvest, oats, OSR, ploughing, pulses, weather