Cornwall

Hosted courtesy of Richard Martin

Field Key

Cover Crops

Barly

Wheat

CORNWALL TRIAL SITE - January UPDATE WITH JAMES WHATTY

Our site is growing a range of winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley, grassland and cover crop trials – with our team also running fungicide and nutrition trials.

The farm runs a sand based system so the trial site field PH is 7.9, so we are going to have to monitor any nutrient lock up which may happen due to the high PH. The field for 2022 is following forage maize which was harvested mid-October.

As seen in the screenshot below the site was at 220 day degrees when sprayed, which is being monitored through Omnia. Although a second threshold has been reached in Mid-December, a second insecticide has not been applied as aphid flights have dropped off even with the mild weather.