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100% of barley for British-brewed Budweiser beer is now sourced from British farms. Be a part of it.
November 24, 2020
Explorer contracts now available for harvest 2021. At the end of September this year, Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I (part of AB InBev) announced that it had achieved its goal of sourcing 100% of the barley used for its UK-produced beers… Read more
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
Cropwatch South – November 2020
November 14, 2020
This October was even wetter than last for us; the wettest on record for many, in fact, with anywhere from 190–230 mm in the rain gauge across my geography. A brief respite in the middle of the month allowed us… Read more
Tagged # astrokerb, autumn cropping, avadex, BYDV, CSFB, early sown, fingicide, OSR, OSR Companion, osr phoma, winter cereals
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
Farming in the extremes – register now for the 2020 Soil and Water Management Centre virtual conference
November 10, 2020
The Worst Harvest in 25 Years! – CEH With yields down 15%, the last twelve months have been very difficult for many growers. A wet autumn curtailed much of 2019’s winter cropping plans followed by a very dry spring which… Read more
New Soil Conditioner for Vine Crops
November 4, 2020
Agrii have been appointed the exclusive UK distributors for OvinAlp MV100, a novel organic soil conditioner which is naturally rich in organic matter. MV100, is derived from the fermented manure of Alpine sheep (known as migon), a natural product which… Read more