David Booty

Technical Development Manager for OMEX Agriculture Limited

[David Booty @dp_booty]

A lot of comments coming from agronomists and farmers once again about how much better @omexag liquid works than granular fert in dry conditions. This just in from our silage strip trials in Cheshire - OMEX right, solid left, just before second cut

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@OMEXAgriculture A very easy "where's Wally" this time due to the jacket! Great to meet the enthusiastic ACT team

[David Booty @dp_booty]

The @OMEXAgriculture trials team were out bright and early this morning in Yorkshire crop surveying with the new drone

[David Booty @dp_booty]

The trials team test flew the new drone today. Very easy to pick out the no nitrogen plots in this winter wheat trial

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@FlowerdewBob The first house I lived in (Victorian) had an underground cistern and hand pump for the roof water. How hard would it be to build new homes with a modern version (filter and electric pump)? Would potentially reduce flooding too.

[David Booty @dp_booty]

This trial is looking at biostimulant use in mustard. Having an in-house trials team means we can do work in less widely grown crops too

[David Booty @dp_booty]

One of our two large plot trials in wheat testing different inhibitors with nitrogen applications, aiming to reduce on-farm losses from fertiliser use

[David Booty @dp_booty]

My favourite time of year. The greenhouse starting to fill up, field trials starting, lots of experiments on the go and new discoveries to be made.

[David Booty @dp_booty]

Testing additives to fertiliser through a real sprayer induction hopper would be too wasteful so here’s our self built scale model in the lab

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@kristenrudd I must confess I always find the very windy dialogue in Dickens is a tough read, no matter how true to life it might be

[David Booty @dp_booty]

A very clear, although unwelcome illustration of the precision accuracy of liquid N application

[Samuel Deane @ArableSam]

Liquid N turned off too soon on winter barley but you can see it works @LukeT724
#agronomydogs gave the operator 7/10 for precision
#arableireland

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@DavidPRushmer Actually I am already in overtime now David. Still doing the day job because I can and I enjoy it (mostly), but looking to reduce to part time later this year and pass on the bits of the job I don't like!

[David Booty @dp_booty]

These two arrived in the post together today. The end is nigh!

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@history99917180 Actually I have to do this ****y thing now because I have hearing aids and the phone links to them via bluetooth, but they have no microphone. Great improvement on struggling to hear callers BUT I am not going to inflict this on others in public as it is annoying.

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@BigBearF1 Most likely filled with nitrogen for preservation purposes, so not even breathable air.

[David Booty @dp_booty]

All ready to learn what’s new in potatoes at the CUPGRA conference in Cambridge. I’m chairing the potato nutrition presentations tomorrow

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@Lucy_Worsley @BBC Your goodness is not an excuse for the badness of others, sorry

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@sturgios Wow you are so wrong. His government was an awful mess it just looks better in retrospect because of what came after

[David Booty @dp_booty]

The real benefits of biostimulants in crop programmes are continually discredited by legions of grifters selling their wares with overblown and unproven claims. The notion that a few litres of angel dust can substitute for fertilisers by replenishing crop offtakes is absurd

[David Booty @dp_booty]

@pubsignsbritain Ironic then that the Britons in this picture are not being protected at all. Looks like a representation of the Peterloo massacre