Back in Spring 2016 I decided that the BASF claim that their T1 Adexar / T2 Librax could deliver £20 h/a extra margin over Aviator needed putting to the test in a rather public way, live on TFF. I felt it was a bold claim but to be fair BASF seemed pretty confident it would deliver and were up for the challenge from the start. The end result was not only a £57 h/a margin over Aviator, but they even beat the free hand of my independent agronomist by £8/ac.
Many of you have seen the video of me discussing the trial and holding my hands up (and even my ugly face in the farming press scaring small children!). Many of you have taken the mick too… so now it’s your turn ;-)
BASF wants to invite 50 farmers from its ‘Real Results Circle’ to test its Xemium fungicide products against any other SDHI you want to – in return for submitting your results.
To support those doing the trials, BASF has recruited independent partners, ADAS and AgSpace. This partnership means that you’ll get real insight into what works on your farm – and means unlike a lot of the trial results often put in front of us as farmers – there is no selectiveness of which results get published and which do not.
This is the way trials should be done IMO, field scale on real farms in real situations with all the constraints that can be brought into the mix, and it’s great that TFF members get the chance to be the farmers doing this. We should all be doing more on farm trials IMO and helping each other by sharing the results, exposing the rubbish products and recommending those that did as they claim.
There are just 50 places available for this but we would like 3 TFF members that feel they have the logistics and weighbridge etc to give solid results, and who will also create regular updates as the season progresses just as I did last year. The idea behind this is to keep it all honest and the debate over decision / timings open and lines drawn in the sand re product prices at the time as it happens. There’s not too much expected from you, just an update maybe with a few pictures at each spray timing and harvest maybe.
As part of the experience you’ll also receive a detailed, independent report on the crop with results, as well as yield and potential/barriers. You’ll also get an invite to the Real Results Conference where you’ll meet the other 49 farmers and get to deep dive into the outcomes with your peers.
Read more detail and register here: https://www.basfrealresults.co.uk/wheat/
BASF will make the final selection of the 50 farms as they want to ensure an even split across the country both location / conditions wise.
………………………..and if you fancy being one of the TFF 3, PM me and I will put your name forward! Again the choice will be down to BASF to try and get a representative split of UK farms.
Many of you have seen the video of me discussing the trial and holding my hands up (and even my ugly face in the farming press scaring small children!). Many of you have taken the mick too… so now it’s your turn ;-)
BASF wants to invite 50 farmers from its ‘Real Results Circle’ to test its Xemium fungicide products against any other SDHI you want to – in return for submitting your results.
To support those doing the trials, BASF has recruited independent partners, ADAS and AgSpace. This partnership means that you’ll get real insight into what works on your farm – and means unlike a lot of the trial results often put in front of us as farmers – there is no selectiveness of which results get published and which do not.
This is the way trials should be done IMO, field scale on real farms in real situations with all the constraints that can be brought into the mix, and it’s great that TFF members get the chance to be the farmers doing this. We should all be doing more on farm trials IMO and helping each other by sharing the results, exposing the rubbish products and recommending those that did as they claim.
There are just 50 places available for this but we would like 3 TFF members that feel they have the logistics and weighbridge etc to give solid results, and who will also create regular updates as the season progresses just as I did last year. The idea behind this is to keep it all honest and the debate over decision / timings open and lines drawn in the sand re product prices at the time as it happens. There’s not too much expected from you, just an update maybe with a few pictures at each spray timing and harvest maybe.
As part of the experience you’ll also receive a detailed, independent report on the crop with results, as well as yield and potential/barriers. You’ll also get an invite to the Real Results Conference where you’ll meet the other 49 farmers and get to deep dive into the outcomes with your peers.
Read more detail and register here: https://www.basfrealresults.co.uk/wheat/
BASF will make the final selection of the 50 farms as they want to ensure an even split across the country both location / conditions wise.
………………………..and if you fancy being one of the TFF 3, PM me and I will put your name forward! Again the choice will be down to BASF to try and get a representative split of UK farms.
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