Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts)

Soil mineral Nitrogen cores; my annual reminder of how and why I went from Controlled Traffic cynic to evangelist by experiencing the difference in compaction between two farms with a soil auger.

Pre-harvest sprouting, Fall Armyworm assay results & new wheat varieties to look out for... #ThinkAgronomy cropnuts.com/think-agronomy-…

Big thanks to @Cropnuts for sap analysis on the nutrition trials. Great to be at the start at least of a long journey to develop local guidelines for our crops.

Good to do some spraying and topdressing today, always see and learn so much by walking through every plot and having thinking time.

Sap testing is definitely highlighting a big drop in magnesium levels in the older leaves. I always start seeing faint magnesium deficiency at this time of year, but leaf tissue testing never quite seems to flag it up. I feel we are about to learn stacks from sap testing....

April #ThinkAgronomy newsletter: - Fall Armyworm update - Making double cropping profitable - Wheat T1 fungicide choices

"Tell me you're obsessed about agronomy without telling me that you're obsessed about agronomy". Variety x population trial, all planted by hand by yours truly.

Maize after just one year of maize on the left, vs after sunflowers & peas last year on the right. No amount of biostimulant or chemical will substitute for a solid rotation.

Seed maize crop looking promising. A bit more Fall Armyworm pressure than I had expected, but the most recently emerged 3-4 leaves are relatively untouched which is where it matters, not the historic damage that catches your eye.

That's quite some nodulation on the Chickpeas! Really quite intrigued to deep N test across the various pulses in this field after harvest.

This month's Think Agronomy newsletter is out today and we publish the full results from this year's wheat trials, look at difficult to control Ryegrass, and put new fungicide Elatus Arc under scrutiny.

Impala wheat seed crop looking 👌 Look out for November's Think Agronomy newsletter next week, for the full season's wheat trial results.

Spring barley tourism.