South: Start of the season
Most crops have come through the winter well, although there is some frost heave in places. Where this is the case, be prepared to roll fields when soil conditions allow.Winter wheat and winter barley...
View ArticleSouth: Winter and spring cereal management
At last it has stopped raining and with the drying wind from the north there has been frantic activity on farms. The light land is being cultivated in readiness for spring crop drilling. The...
View ArticleWest: T3 fungicide dilemma
The weather unfortunately dominates our thoughts. I am commonly asked what I think yields will be as there are some concerns in respect to meeting forward sold tonnages. Winter oilseed rape crops...
View ArticleSouth: Aphids numbers surge in crops
Insects are the big watch out for us here at the moment. Aphid numbers on cereals and oilseed rape are the highest for many years and we’re finding the first gout fly eggs on wheat. Leaf miner is...
View ArticleSouth: Rain greens up stressed crops
We have finally had some meaningful rain and crops that looked stressed have greened up nicely now nitrogen has been taken up. With further rain forecast this week, prospects look rosier than they did...
View ArticleNorth: Is this the norm or just a blip?
No matter how astute the growers, how skilled the farm operators or how smart the agronomists are, Mother Nature always has the final say. Never has this been more apparent than this season. As has...
View ArticleNorth: No let up in the “Battle of 2012″
Any thoughts that we might get a final weather window to see 2012 out in style appear to be like many soils – washing into watercourses the length and breadth of the country. As I write the rain is...
View ArticleNorth: Conditions as bad as they get
The shutters have squelched down on autumn sowings. Conditions now are really as bad as they get. Will we ever achieve an economic crop value for next year? Who knows. Next year’s crops are never going...
View ArticleSouth: Not scrimping on growth regulators
Spring has finally sprung in Wiltshire! This last week saw temperatures that were closer to “normal”, frosts have been light or none existent and most days the wind hasn’t cut straight through you....
View ArticleWest: Prioritising jobs in the weeks ahead
I started the last blog with “frustration,” but that was surpassed at the end of that week with “disbelief” with 6-15in of snow with some experiencing drifts of up to 5-6ft. Crops spent the next two...
View ArticleSouth: Start of the season
Most crops have come through the winter well, although there is some frost heave in places. Where this is the case, be prepared to roll fields when soil conditions allow.Winter wheat and winter barley...
View ArticleSouth: Winter and spring cereal management
At last it has stopped raining and with the drying wind from the north there has been frantic activity on farms. The light land is being cultivated in readiness for spring crop drilling. The...
View ArticleWest: T3 fungicide dilemma
The weather unfortunately dominates our thoughts. I am commonly asked what I think yields will be as there are some concerns in respect to meeting forward sold tonnages. Winter oilseed rape crops...
View ArticleSouth: Aphids numbers surge in crops
Insects are the big watch out for us here at the moment. Aphid numbers on cereals and oilseed rape are the highest for many years and we’re finding the first gout fly eggs on wheat. Leaf miner is...
View ArticleSouth: Rain greens up stressed crops
We have finally had some meaningful rain and crops that looked stressed have greened up nicely now nitrogen has been taken up. With further rain forecast this week, prospects look rosier than they did...
View ArticleNorth: Is this the norm or just a blip?
No matter how astute the growers, how skilled the farm operators or how smart the agronomists are, Mother Nature always has the final say. Never has this been more apparent than this season. As has...
View ArticleNorth: No let up in the “Battle of 2012″
Any thoughts that we might get a final weather window to see 2012 out in style appear to be like many soils – washing into watercourses the length and breadth of the country. As I write the rain is...
View ArticleNorth: Conditions as bad as they get
The shutters have squelched down on autumn sowings. Conditions now are really as bad as they get. Will we ever achieve an economic crop value for next year? Who knows. Next year’s crops are never going...
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