I have just attended the AICC conference. As always, it was a great conference with record numbers of agronomists and industry attending. Delegates heard a range of technical papers as well as presentations on the future trends in food consumption and the …
The quote “you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time” is attributed to Abraham Lincoln. It came to mind when I watched the TV reports on the floods on the …
This is the 100th Orson’s Oracle and there is no better way to start it than by saying that for once I agree with one of Prince Charles’ pronouncements. Last week he said before an invited audience “ With a barrage of sheer intimidation, we are told by …
Last week I heard a fascinating talk on the minimal (i.e. critical) level of phosphate needed in the soil to achieve optimum economic yields of broad-acre crops. RB209 has said for years that it should be Index 2 as measured by Olsen-P. Like many things, …
Most people know what a CV is but not so many know what a CV% represents. It is the coefficient of variation and, crudely put, is a measure of the variation in the data from individual treatments in an experiment as a proportion of the mean of the …
Last week I went to the Defra offices in London for a meeting. Whilst walking to Cambridge railway station I was reminded of the changes that have occurred on that route over the past thirty years. Halfway to the station I passed the former site of a …
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