Written by Charlotte Cunningham
After one of the toughest seasons in living memory for growers, biostimulants Bridgeway and Zonda could offer a last ditched attempt to salvage profitability, according to the latest advice from Interagro. Charlotte Cunningham reports. For all milling varieties – regardless of group – Hagberg Falling Number, specific weight and protein are key quality characteristics, which all have a significant impact on the final product. As the yields of milling varieties have increased in line with feed varieties, careful attention must be paid to crop nitrogen requirements, says Stuart Sutherland, technical manager at Interagro. “With wheat always using available nitrogen to create yield before building quality, if it is not in sufficient supply, growers will struggle to reach the point at which it is being used to increase grain protein content.” After anthesis, the end of flowering in wheat, nitrogen is remobilised from senescing leaf and stem tissues to the developing grain, influencing grain protein content. Amino acids are the major form of nitrogen which is transported from the leaf to grain in wheat, and so supplementing this could prove to be a very savvy move this season, he adds. “Approximately 60–95% of the grain nitrogen at maturity relies on the…
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