@BASFcropUK Finally a gap in the weather to get the Clearfield trial cut in Northumberland this afternoon. Thanks to @bowsdenhall for taking the time to harvest the varieties. #harvest19#clearfield
7 flights, over 23,000 miles, 10 hotels, 1 fergburger, 15 farm visits, not sure how many speights 🤔 and 25 broken farmers. Thank you @BASFcropUK for organising a fantastic, thought provoking trip and thank you @BASF_Agro_NZ for hosting us. #InnovationTourNZ#tripofalifetime
UK farmers and the BASF team getting a detailed up date from Grant Haggerty. BASF NZ Mr Fungicide at FAR Cereal open day. #InnovationTourNZ#Revysol@BASFcropUK
Turley Farms visit. 4000ha combinable cropped Canterbury plain farm. Ex pat agronomist Roger Lasham gave a fascinating tour about huge variety of crops for seed production. Including Claire, Crusoe and Clearfield OSR seed production.#InnovationtourNZ#realroadtripNZ@BASFcropUK
@JamesWFretwell Sorry only just seen this. Trip has been fantastic, at turley farms today ending up at Christchurch end of the week. Yes Pukekohe, impressive business!
Our day of visiting cereal growers continues.Mike Solari former wheat world record holder.9 year rotation including grass grazed by sheep to increase fertility.Bushel weight can be 90kg/hl. He is glad they don't have our restrictions on nitrogen use.#InnovationTourNZ@BASFcropUK
Interesting day seeing some cereal crops, these southland growers are pushing yields 12-15t/ha wheat, 9-11t/ha barley! Been a challenging spring for them 171mm in November (UK May equivalent) Revysol looking impressive #innovationtourNZ@BASFcropUK
And here’s day 4 of the #InnovationTourNZ - we visited the fantastic man that is Dr John Baker @CrossSlot - there are now 130 of these drills bought and being used, 60 in NZ, 30 in the UK, the rest all over the world.