Arableaware

Andy Bailey and Mel Wardle, ADAMA fungicide Technical Specialist and Product Manager catch up ahead of the spring 2022 season. Andy shares his latest advice on fungicide strategy for the coming spring season. He will also provide his best use advice for ARIZONA following ADAMA latest trials results.

Location: Zoom Show notes: This online episode features our in-house technical specialists, Andy Bailey and Bill Lankford, as well as special guest Ian Holmes, in-house agronomist at Strawsons Ltd in Nottinghamshire.  Also, Charles Anyan and John Birchall, two growers looking after farms in North Lincolnshire and Shrewsbury, give us an update on how they've come through the winter and are preparing for spring. Plus, coming up later in the show is an extended interview with Charles about the recent run1000 event that he took part in raising awareness around mental health and raising vital money too, for the Farming Community Network. 02.58 - Ian updates us on how his crop fields are looking at the moment 03.07 - Andy brings us up to speed with the importance of multi-sites  06.57 - Ian shares why he believes resistant management is an important part of his strategy and his views on folpet (ADAMA multi-site).  09.45 - New into the ADAMA business, Bill provides an update on what he is working on at the moment as

Date: 16/11/20 Location: Zoom Show notes: This online episode is based around Multi-Site Inhibitors and in particular, Folpet. The show features two special guests from our R&D centre in Israel, Yoav Avidor and Gilad Silbert. We aim to go behind the scenes and explain just how our fungicide expertise and experience goes in to making efficacious, quality formulations to help in your disease control and resistance management. 00.00 Introduction 02.52 Yoav tells us about the R&D center and exactly what work is happening there 6.35 Andy (ADAMA UK Fungicide Technical Specialist) explains the link his role in the UK to the Israel production 7.58 Gilad provides an overview of when and how Folpet was developed 9.54 Gilad goes on to explain the main challenges  to be overcome when developing a formulation 12.30 Taking a step back, Andy explains in more detail about what a multi-site is and why it’s important 15.56 We break away to Richard Cobbald, Farm Manager at Bartlow Estate in Cambridgeshire. He gives an u

Date: 02/10/19 Location: Charnwood House, Amber Hill, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE20 3RQ  Show notes: David Roberts (ADAMA’s Herbicide Technical Specialists) and Will Nicholls (ADAMA’s Regional Agronomy Manger) are with Simon Gadd in Lincolnshire. Simon starts by welcoming ADAMA to his farm and sharing how his oilseed rape is looking. David and Will also share their thoughts on this year’s harvest. 3.10 In a pre-recorded interview Mike Hooper, Wiltshire, shares his harvest experience as well as providing a general update on disease pressure, OSR drilling and the cultural control methods he is using to tackle black-grass 6.10 Next is another pre-recorded interview from Russ McKenzie based near Huntingdon. He also shares his harvest experience, disease pressure and how he reached 85% establishment in OSR 11.07 David provides his comments on the pre-recorded interviews, and in particular advises on cabbage stem flea beetle in OSR and black-grass control measures. Will also shares his insights on the recent disease l

Date: 07/05/19 Location: Grange Farm, Abbots Ripton, Nr Huntingdon  Show notes: Andy Bailey and David Roberts are in Abbots Ripton with Crop Production Manager Paul Drinkwater.  Paul starts by welcoming ADAMA and explaining his farming unit and the crops grown. Paul moves on to discuss how the wheat field is looking after the autumn. David shares his concerns with regards to the massive cracks in the tramlines across the UK and explains rain is needed to get the best yield potential; even for clean crops (3.05) Andy turns the conversation towards fungicides and discusses with Paul his T0 fungicide application. Paul explains his high input system approach (4.43) In a pre-recorded interview, Steve Cook, an agronomist at Hampshire Arable Systems gives a crop update from the south (5.28) Paul shares how things are comparing in Cambridgeshire (14.21) Paul goes on to discuss his control of grass weeds, and explains how his pre-emergence chemistry worked well. He shares how he aims to get his pre-em on 48 hours afte

Date: 07/01/19 Location: Whitewool Farm, Hampshire Show notes: In our first show of season 2, Andy Bailey and David Roberts are in Hampshire with Will Butler the Farm Director.  They are joined by Tom, a prototype robot developed by the Small Robot Company. Will starts by telling us about Whitewool farm and how the crops there are looking to date. (1.29) We jump to a pre-recorded interview with Simon Gadd who's farm is based in a small village called Amber Hill in Lincolnshire. He share his cropping insights, disease pressures and black-grass problems! (4.35) Next we jump to hear from Steve May, Farm Manager at Fromant and Sanders just west of Northamptonshire. He also shares his current cropping situation. (11.15) Back on farm, the rain has stopped! Will describes hows his winter cereals are looking in Hampshire, the current disease levels and his strategies for fungicide control programmes.(16.12) Sam Watson and Robin Jackson from The Small Robot company join the conversation. They have brought along Robot

Date: 09/11/18 Location: Sherwood Farm, Oxon Show notes: In our final show for the year, our Technical Specialists, David Roberts (Herbicides) and Andy Bailey (Fungicides) are in Oxfordshire to visit Sherwood Farm. Farm Manager, Mark Oldroyd and Assistant Farm Manager, Jack Bedlow (along with dog Ruby) take the time chat with us. Mark shares insights into Sherwood Farm, the award winning team, as well as discussing what crops are grown on the farm (0.58) In the vetch and oats field Mark explains why he has decided to grow this cover crop (3.00)  David provides an update on black-grass dormancy and the fight against this weed (4.10) In a pre-recorded interview Andy Roberts from South Staffordshire gives his insight into how last season went on his farm in terms of yield; as well as sharing how the dry conditions affected drilling dates (5.54) Back on Sherwood Farm, Mark also shares with us his yield results from last season. Andy is interested to find out further Mark’s thoughts on how he achieved such good wh

Date: 13/09/18 Location: Home Farm, Swaffham Show notes: Our Technical Specialists, David Roberts (Herbicides) and Andy Bailey (Fungicides) have made their way to Home Farm in Swaffham, Norfolk to visit Richard Cobbald who is the Estate Manager there. After one of the hottest summers for years, in this episode we will be focussing on how the 2018 harvest has been and plans for the Autumn season ahead. Richard shares some insights into Home Farm and how things are looking post-harvest. Conversations soon turn to the hot topic of flea beetles. (0.40) Richard discusses his cover crop approach which you may have read recently in Farmers Weekly. If not, it can be found here. David Roberts, Adama’s herbicide expert shares his views on cover cropping and what benefits it brings. (4.40)  David and Andy share their harvest 2018 thoughts, the positives and negatives! (8.12) Tom Home in Shropshire and Andrew Ward in Lincolnshire provide a grower’s insight into the harvest in their regions and the integrated approach the

Date: 01/05/2018 Location: Mill Farm, Maidwell Show Notes: What a difference a few months can make! The first episode was recorded in the snow, this week however, the sun made an appearance as we walked the fields of Mill Farm where Farm Manager, Tom Paybody showed our Technical Specialist, Andy Bailey and David Roberts around his crops.  We start the show with a similar format to last time, where we catch up with our two new YEN growers in a pre-recorded interview, Richard Cobbald (South Pickenham) and James Turner (Ludlow) who discus how their crop are looking given the difficult spring, farm resistance and much more. (4.10) Back at Mill Farm, we get a similar update from Tom Paybody, who grows almost a quarter of his land as spring cropping. He discusses how this has affected his crop rotation and the long time approach to black-grass control. (14.09) Andy Bailey also takes the opportunity to talk T0 and septoria control with particular reference to  the recent weather conditions. Conversations soon turn

Date: 05/03/2018 Location: Strawson Ltd, Newark Show Notes:  We are extremely excited to launch our very first podcast show, A Snowy Start For our first show our two Technical Specialists, Andy Bailey (Fungicides) and David Roberts (Herbicides) visit Strawson Ltd in-house agronomist Ian Holmes    We kick off by hearing a pre-recorded soundbite from two of our YEN growers Iain Robertson (South West) and Alan Clifton-Holt (South East), on how their cereal crops have come through the winter. Thanks for the update! (03:24) Back at Strawson Ltd, the guys start their snowy farm visit in a wheat field; conversations focus around prepping for spring and Ian's approach to T0 protection against septoria and rust control. (12:05)  Earlier in the week we took the time to catch up with a podcasting pro – Will Evans from Rock and Roll Farming. It was Will that inspired our podcast channel so we really wanted to learn from the best! We also had a chat about Oxford Farming Conference and Will’s experience as an emerging lea