Tagged: wheat
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – April 2021
April 19, 2021
A drier spell has enabled us to move ahead with our top dressing. However early spraying off was disrupted by the wet and wind. Every time the ground seems to be drying out enough to think about spring drilling another… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomist, barley, black - grass, blackgrass, bulb fly, byvd, crop performance, disease problems, jo bell, kws, kws zyatt, OSR, PGR, Spring Barley, spring cropping, spring crops, spring wheat, talking agronomy, what, wheat, Yellow Rust
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – Winter 2020
November 16, 2020
November/December 2020 This season is certainly justifying our decision to stick with OSR, albeit on wider rotations than in the past. We have only lost two very small fields so far despite almost no pyrethroid spraying. What’s more, coming into… Read more
Tagged # agronomy advice, black - grass, cover crops, crop performance, crop proctection, crops, disease problems, glyphosate, Oilseed rape, OSR, prothiconazole, Soil structure, wheat
No-Till Contract Farming Recipe Proves Its Worth on the Cotswolds
November 11, 2020
Diversity, flexibility and capacity are the cornerstones of the successful no-till contract farming business built by Toby Baxter for a growing number of landowners on the western edge of the Cotswolds over the past decade. He and his Agrii agronomist,… Read more
Tagged # arable, baxter, crop, DIVERSITY, GRASS, LEYS, MIXED FARM, No-Till Contract Farming, sheep, SUCCESS, TURNIPS, varieties, vickery, wheat, winter wheat
Talking Agronomy – Jo Bell – October 2020
October 1, 2020
Mid-September and there’s just some linseed and beans to finish harvesting. As we feared, the August storms took their toll of some cereals. Oats were the worst hit, with up to 50% of the grain on the floor; a shame… Read more
Tagged # armadillo, barley, blackgrass, budweiser, BYDV, dickens, explorer, extase, glyphosate, grt, kerrin, kws, lanter, lantern, Linseed, OSR, seed, silversurfer, skyfall, varieties, wheat, winter wheat, wolverine, zyatt
Cropwatch – South, Iain Richards
June 23, 2020
June 2020 I can safely say this has been the most challenging season in my 27 years as an agronomist. It was a nightmare at the start, is anything but easy near the end and has given us barely a… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, arable, crops, cropwatch, iain richards, south, t3, wheat
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell
June 3, 2020
We have seldom seen such diverse growth stages across our spring crops, much within individual fields. Especially where we have still had no meaningful rain. I have spring beans 3” tall in some parts of the field and yet to… Read more
Tagged # Agrii advisory list, agronomy, crops, RL, varieties, wheat
Cropwatch South
June 3, 2020
Our wheats have been racing through their growth stages, going from GS32 to GS39 in only 14 days. As we start on our T2s, the boots are already swelling on some crops and it won’t be long before ears begin… Read more
Tagged # crops, disease, drought, dry, folpet, OWBM, rain, resistance, SDHI, T2, T3 Spray, wheat
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
CropWatch South – November 2019
November 26, 2019
A few reasonably dry days in the third week of October meant we got 80% of our planned winter barley into seedbeds allowing a pre-em before calling a halt to drilling. The headlands won’t be pretty. Still, at least it’s… Read more
Tagged # crop, crop establishment, drill, nutrition, rain, wheat, winter, winter wheat