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The Agronomist's year in Pictures
This years Cropping Season in pictures. Click and scroll to see more
Winter Field Beans.
Total area grown. 1873: 220,000 ha. 2025 137,000 ha. Selling price 1873: £9.00 to 12.00 / t. Adjusted to 2025 pricing thats £1200 to £1600.00 / metric tonne.
Drought Stress. Forage Maize.
Drought stress at the 8-leaf stage in forage maize significantly limits vegetative growth and final biomass accumulation. It restricts cell division and expansion, leading to smaller leaf areas and shorter plants.
Winter Wheat Harvest.
As harvest approaches, the wheat plant undergoes rapid senescence and ripening. Primary changes are chlorophyll breakdown (turning the plant straw-colored), the redistribution of nutrients and sugars into the grain, and a steep drop in kernel moisture as the grain transitions through the soft dough, hard dough, and mature stages
Winter field beans.
Aiming for a final pod set of 10 to 25 per main shoot, with branch stems adding more depending on the season. This final number is heavily dictated by node count, flower abortion rates (due to early summer heat or drought), and pollinator activity during stem extension.
Field Bindweed in Maize 2026.
Early application of herbicide reduces the competitive effect of Bindweed in Maize.
Field Bindweed in Maize.
This photo, from July 2025, shows what is possible when it comes to Bindweed control in maize. That is providing you spray it now.
Chocolate Spot in winter field beans.
Steadily colonising an ever-increasing area of green leaf in the base of the crop this insidious diseases should not be forgotten.
Winter wheat: 11.0 t/ha
The period between flag leaf emergence and flowering is critical in the determination of grains per ear, crops need to be as healthy as possible and free of environmental stress.
Winter wheat. Flag leaf emergence.
Another good plant population of winter wheat at flag leaf emergence.
Leaves OR Pods?
Maximum yields, often targeting over 5 t/ha, depend on maintaining a high green leaf area index for early biomass, which later supports the development of 6,000 to 8,000 pods /m2.
Poultry litter. Applied Spring 2026.
Half the field had a dressing half the field did not. See the difference?
Winter Wheat - Crusoe.
A block of Crusoe winter wheat prior to the onset of flag leaf emergence.
Fertiliser Uptake.
Adequate water is crucial for nutrient movement (mass flow) to the roots. A lack of moisture significantly reduces nitrogen uptake and subsequent crop growth.
Slurry and Silage Aftermath.
Ryegrass coated with a layer of slurry or dirty water prior to a crop of maize does not respond well to an application of Glyphosate.
Spring Applied Contact Herbicides.
Good to see that the contact grass weed herbicides are still working in the field even though results are totally unpredictable.
Oil Seed Rape at the onset of flowering.
The landscape is now taking on a wonderful yellow hue, perhaps earlier than traditionally so.
Headland Tramlines.
Still a few wet patches in fields!
Opportunistic herbivores.
Highly nutritious, tender, and accessible, rabbits are drawn to the soft leaves, stems, and flowers of legumes like beans. I just wish they wouldn’t!
Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle.
Why is my crop of Oil Seed Rape not growing as well as my neighbors?
Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle.
For the best crop of larvae establish your Oil Seed Rape in the month of August.
Winter Barley.
"I left this bit just to show you how well your grass weed herbicide has worked this year."
Winter Oil Seed Rape.
Stem elongation has begun but we will have to see what the weather does as to how fast it progresses.
Source and Sink.
Winter barley. Early Nitrogen required to maintain a high tiller number.
Experimental.
Trials work in and out of the field.
Charlock in Oil Seed Rape.
Very good coverage of the target with herbicide.
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