The yield plateau project which I referred to last week has started a flurry of emails. I received one from a farmer who has mapped out the average yields of the individual HGCA Recommended List winter wheat trials carried out over the last ten years. …
I gave a few talks at New Zealand's equivalent to the Cereals Event this week - The FAR CROPS Expo , held near Chertsey on the South Island. It was very difficult to prepare the talks because of recent events. The options were, should I excessively gloat …
The weather is now glorious in New Zealand; you can almost feel all that solar radiation swelling the crops. After speaking at events in both the North and the South Island crops look generally well, but spring barley has been a bit slow getting off the …
Jim reaches his half century - the 50th Orson's Oracle I don’t want to sound like Victor Meldrew but I don’t believe it! We’d travelled halfway round the world and taken several internal flights around New Zealand and it had all gone like clockwork. We …
End of year publications often contain facts and figures to sum up progress (or otherwise) over the previous 12 months. One such figure really surprised me; there has been a 30% fall in fruit and vegetable consumption by lower income families in the UK …
Once the New Year is over, farmers’ thoughts turn to nitrogen applications (amongst many other things). NIAB TAG has become particularly interested in nitrogen dose since the introduction of NVZs, increased nitrogen costs and the full realisation of its …
A blog I wrote last May was titled “ Infamy ” after the great line for Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleopatra, “ Infamy, infamy, they have all got it in for me ”. The blog was about the persecution of glyphosate by the anti-GM movement. Well, the …
Northern Regional Agronomist Patrick Stephenson guest blogs from the US Last week I was in the company of Blaine Viator at the Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) annual conference. Blaine is an independent crop consultant from Louisiana …
The relatively warmer weather tempted me out this morning to glyphosate the extension to my allotment. It is currently lawn and killing the grass before digging will save an awful lot of summer weeding. The App. on my phone suggested that I had seven …
I know the precise date when I first saw a television picture. It was 24th March 1951. How do you attribute this amazing display of memory? As is often the case, it is by association with a particular event. Our brand new 12 inch set was first switched on …
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