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Phoma in Oilseed Rape: Beyond Fungicides
We are at that stage when agronomists across the country will be recommending the autumn phoma sprays. Almost a routine exercise and is...
Tim Ashley
Oct 3, 20256 min read


Levelling the Data Field: Why AI Could Democratise Farm Insight
Until relatively recently, most farm data have been in the hands of big ag platforms, including John Deere, Omnia, Rhiza, and Syngenta’s...
Tim Ashley
Aug 29, 20252 min read


Bio hack Your Autumn: Compost, Biology & Liquid Catch Crops After the Drought
It’s been one of the hottest and driest summers we’ve seen in years. Crops came off early, yields are down, and in many fields, there’s...
Tim Ashley
Aug 4, 20254 min read


Yellow Rust: A Symptom of Systemic Weakness in Cereal Cropping Systems
Introduction The 2025 wheat season has revealed significant vulnerabilities in cereal production systems across the UK. Yellow rust...
Tim Ashley
Jul 7, 20254 min read


Maize: Could Microbes Be the Drought-Resilience Tool We’ve Been Overlooking?
With one of the driest springs on record in the UK, many crops are already running the gauntlet before summer has even begun. While we’re...
Tim Ashley
May 12, 20252 min read
Rethinking Fungicide Applications in a Low-Yield Year: Investing in Crop Resilience
Many UK farmers face an unusual scenario this season—extended dry conditions resulting in significantly reduced disease pressure on...
Tim Ashley
May 12, 20253 min read


Soil Biology: Joining the dots
I recently participated in the Aiva Fertilisers (https://aivafertiliser.co.uk/) Time to Talk series, giving talks on the importance of...
Tim Ashley
Feb 15, 20242 min read


Growing soil carbon
A blog series that looks at various aspects of soil health and dives into the science and tries to pick out the 'take-home messages' -...
Tim Ashley
Oct 19, 20213 min read


Starting off - looking at plant nutrition in more detail
The YouTube video below is from Groundswell 2018 where Joel Williams of Integrated Soils gives some fantastic insights to Advanced plant...
Tim Ashley
Aug 28, 20211 min read
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