The Potato Partnership regional meetings
HAVE YOU BOOKED YOUR PLACE? The Potato Partnership (TPP) are holding 4 events during February 2025 across Hereford, Essex, York and Scotland to showcase the results and findings from our 2024 trials. Covering: Book your place on our website! Visit thepotatopartnership.co.uk/events to reserve yours. Places on a first-come, first-served basis.
Jonathan Garratt – Basis Trial
Jonathan Garratt, a new member of the fruit team, completed his BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection and IPM. (Commercial Horticulture) in 2024. As part of his BASIS project, he investigated methods of woolly apple aphid control suitable for commercial apple orchards. Batavia (spirotetramat) is the current industry standard plant protection product for woolly apple aphid […]
Seize the SFI opportunity
Emma Smith, an Agrii agronomist specialising in fruit production, explains why the Sustainable Farming Incentive is an easy win for vineyards and other horticulture businesses. Like many horticultural businesses, Vineyards are well-placed to capitalise on the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). It does not offer payments on a scale with those of the Basic Payment Scheme […]
Living up to the SFI and its actions
The SFI offers financial payments to those who adopt variable rate applications, but demonstrating compliance is more than a tick-box exercise, explains Rhiza Product Manager Ben Foster. The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) has much to offer growers. With 102 actions available across a multitude of activities, the SFI has something for every farm and with […]
Don’t be tempted to take shortcuts with herbal leys
Thinking more about the role of SAM3 herbal leys and choosing the best option for your own individual farming set-up could deliver benefits far beyond those resulting from the SFI payment alone. Not all SAM3 herbal leys are the same. Producers choosing the least cost seed simply to tick the SFI box required for the […]
Pasture ready: best practices for turning out livestock this spring
David Thornton, Nutritionist, gives his advice to livestock farmers ahead of spring turnout. Grazed grass is the highest-quality and cheapest feed on the farm in spring, better than silage and equivalent to concentrates. In fact, offering concentrates to livestock on spring grass will substitute intake, cost approximately ten times more and not affect performance! Early […]
How a new biostimulant helps crops fight off disease
A new class of biostimulant energises the plant’s metabolic processes to fight off pathogens by triggering a hypersensitive response. It looks set to find its way into early-season spray programmes this spring. A new type of biostimulant has emerged that works hand-in-hand with conventional crop protection programmes by boosting plant health to help combat disease […]
New Agrii service brings the benefits of the carbon economy to customers
Agrii has teamed up with carbon farming innovators Agreena to offer a bespoke service focused on helping its customers make full use of individual farm resources and maximise opportunities from the carbon economy. The new partnership will help producers understand carbon farming better while allowing them to build a revenue stream from their own implementation […]
Agrii’s new glasshouse facilities to promote better research
Don Pendergrast, Agrii technical manager for non-combinable crops, explains why Agrii is investing almost a million pounds in a new glasshouse. Agrii is nearing the completion of a 480m2 glasshouse that will extend our research capacity and enhance our advice to customers. At a cost of almost £1 million, the glasshouse and adjoining polytunnels will […]
New: sustainable wheat contract
Agrii, in partnership with Viterra and Whitworths, has developed a new sustainable wheat programme for harvest 2025. The programme aims to quantify the emissions associated with growing a wheat crop, with the ambition to reduce emissions per tonne in the future. Farmers on this programme will be rewarded a guaranteed premium of £5/t for inputting […]
