My Bridgeway Biostimulant trial

[Clive]

Doing some tramline trials myself,
1lt/ha @ T0followed by 1lt/ha@ T1 will get another @ T2

1lt/ha @ T1 and will go again @T2

2lts/ha @ T1

All the above in WW1 Lili

Done two tramlines in winter beans at 1lt/ha

No visible difference in any of the above yet but will send leaf samples for testing soon

Please update us with any results

 

[Clive]

Yield and crop quality will be best indicator in my opinion.

It’s all that really matters

 

[Chae1]

It’s all that really matters

I guess it maybe isn t though?

Whats the yield cost?

What harm has it caused to environment/soil? Following crop.

 

[principal skinner]

Please update us with any results

Will do

 

[Clive]

I guess it maybe isn t though?

Whats the yield cost?

What harm has it caused to environment/soil? Following crop.

MOIC is what I’m looking for in anything I trial

I’m not sure this is a product with any potential to cause harm - it’s organic certified vegetable protein/ trace elements

 

[Chae1]

MOIC is what I’m looking for in anything I trial

I’m not sure this is a product with any potential to cause harm - it’s organic certified vegetable protein/ trace elements

I see your coming up to Forfar next week. I'm going to try and get down to hear you speak.

 

[Clive]

I see your coming up to Forfar next week. I'm going to try and get down to hear you speak.

Be great to meet you

 

[Sandy]

I see your coming up to Forfar next week. I'm going to try and get down to hear you speak.

What’s on in Forfar?

 

[Clive]

Some more results taken from samples taken last week post t2 and pre t3 timings

This time we took a look at flag leaf length as well and it seems there is a trend for the treated areas to have longer flag leafs

Brix levels same day

Seems that difference in levels between treated and untreated have narrowed a bit

 

[snarling bee]

The cynic in me says I could get results like that from any 2 tramlines in any field. Not really significant I would suggest.
Crop height? Ear numbers? Grain sites per ear?

EDIT Possibly easier to just wait for harvest.

 

[Clive]

The cynic in me says I could get results like that from any 2 tramlines in any field. Not really significant I would suggest.
Crop height? Ear numbers? Grain sites per ear?

EDIT Possibly easier to just wait for harvest.

I agree - the only important result is the one at harvest !

The rest is just interest along the way

 

[juke]

@Clive if you were a gambling man do you think the treated areas will out yield the untreated plots ?

 

[Clive]

@Clive if you were a gambling man do you think the treated areas will out yield the untreated plots ?

Honestly I have no idea !

Wheat looks good treated and untreated right now

I’ve found the differences in brix interesting which leads me to believe it is doing something but if that something actually becomes extra yield we will just have to wait until harvest to find out

 

[Clive]

Final update on sampling pre harvest

This time ear measurement of treated vs untreated on each of the plots

Make of it what you will but its seems to me that we have had larger flag and larger ears generally where the Bridgeway was used - it this turns into increased yield and more importantly more MOIC remains to be seen however

 

[Gong Farmer]

Looking at the range in ear sizes I doubt any of those increases can be statistically significant. However when you get so many small but insignificant benefits, you can't avoid the fact that there must be some other sort of significance. I think someone coined the phrase 'consistently insignificant'

Again annoyingly, it's doubtful a 6mm increase in ear size would give significantly (or measurable) higher yield.

 

[Hindsight]

Looking at the range in ear sizes I doubt any of those increases can be statistically significant. However when you get so many small but insignificant benefits, you can't avoid the fact that there must be some other sort of significance. I think someone coined the phrase 'consistently insignificant'

Again annoyingly, it's doubtful a 6mm increase in ear size would give significantly (or measurable) higher yield.

I am surprised no-one has reduced this thread of serious applied science to a level of smutty schoolboy humour. And so that disreputable honour must go to me!! I thought it was what one did with it rather than the size that mattered, as the actress said to the Bishop.

Boom. boom.

Sorry, yes it was me that always had the 'slightly' soiled copy of Mayfair in the school kit bag back in the day. I have gathered my coat and slunk away. Promise not to return.

 

[Brisel]

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating of it. I look forward to seeing the yield & quality results.

 

[Clive]

Picture taken on day of sampling - regardless of the trial it looks a promising year for wheat, on our light land its normally dead by now !

 

[Daniel]

Just to jump in here, we had this cute little trials combine here today doing some proper science.

So while it was here he kindly cut 3 x 24m2 plots in both my treated and untreated tramlines of TFP Prograin. It was in late drilled Crusoe after sugar beet, fairly light soil, suffered in the dry spell.

Untreated varied between 8.2 and 9.03 t/ha, average 8.64t/ha 76.62 sp weight at 14.51% moisture.

Treated all 8.9t/ha, 75.78 sp weight at 14.4% moisture.

So an uplift of 260kg/ha if wheat £150/t that's £39, product cost £22.80, uplift of £16.20/ha. I'm saying it cost nothing to apply as it went in with t1 and t2.

Hope that makes sense.

Hardly earth shattering but just about measurable, would need repeating for 20 years to check it!

Manufacturer and retailer of magic potion probably make as much out of it as I do.

Got the same trial on a much better field of feed wheat up the road, but couldn't ask the trials combine to trek 5 miles, will sample that when its cut.

 

[MNBVCXZ]

Interested to hear the positive yield response!
Is it statistically significant?