Tagged: winter crops
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
Manage winter rape with particular precision this spring
February 19, 2014
Many winter oilseed rape crops are so well grown after the exceptionally mild winter that growers should hold-off on their first spring nitrogen until late March, be sparing in the use of it and apply a good growth regulating fungicide… Read more
Tagged # Agri-intelligence, agronomist, agronomists, ifarms, Oilseed rape, OSR, R&D, winter crops
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
West Midlands harvest ‘reality check’
August 27, 2013
Winter wheat, spring barley, winter rape and potatoes are all coming ready in a frantic rush for Shropshire-based Agrii agronomist, Peter Jones and his West Midlands customers. And, while the harvest certainly isn’t looking bad given the challenges of the… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, agronomists, barley, OSR, wheat yields, winter cereals, winter crops, yield potential
Keeping on top of our game
March 26, 2013
As we move through March our winter crops are, thankfully, starting to pick-up nicely from their early N. Although a lot of the wheats have plenty of catching-up to do, earlier drilled crops are looking well. And decently established OSR hybrids,… Read more
Tagged # disease levels, OSR, Pollen beetle, winter crops
CropWatch South: Counting our Blessings
February 18, 2013
The weather has been unrelenting. A good amount of our wheat didn’t go in ‘til November and December. Some of our OSR is unlikely to make it. And most of our crops are coming out of the winter well behind… Read more
Tagged # black - grass problems, cereal disease, foliar nutrition, Nutriphite PGA, OSR, winter crops