Isaac Mukonyi @isaacmukonyi6

#father.#Christian.#farmer.#Agronomist. Anywhere in Kenya Joined March 2016

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 weeks ago

A comparison of double cropping and single crop yields on one farm over the past 12 seasons. When you draw a line of the break even yield required for each crop, two of them do not make sense when double cropped. I should add that this is highly specific to soil type and…

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 months ago

Wheat after lupins is chuffed. We hit the Ryegrass hard in the lupins but I am expecting the Conyza to be a challenge in the off-season. I really think a dense cover crop would do a lot of good after harvest.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 months ago

I watched a Tempo plant this maize back in April when they were still getting frosts. Seriously accurate job. The CoV between seed placement with those planters is usually around 15% - I'm dying to see what a Speed tube planter can achieve.

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Isaac Mukonyi @isaacmukonyi6

3 months ago

North Rift Kenya. Kenya's biggest🌾🌽🍟 food basket. Happy to spend my week here visiting farmers and sharing my cereal expertise. Great to see how the crop is coming up after a hard start of moisture stress. @BASFAgro #agronomy #Cereals #fortheloveoffarming #biggestjobonearth

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

a year ago

I've said on so many occasions that choice of product at T1 has to consider Stem Rust, and that the supposition that the disease only comes into the crop around flowering is incorrect. Effects of using the wrong chemistry are very clear to see here much later on.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

a year ago

Absolutely bowled over by the differences in disease levels in the trace element plots. Much more Stem and Yellow Rust on the right in the 1st pic where only Cu applied, and Septoria on lower leaves in 2nd pic where only Silica applied.

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Isaac Mukonyi @isaacmukonyi6

2 years ago

When it's done independently. Good insight. Thank you @Kenya_Agron

David Jones @Kenya_Agron

2 years ago

When it's done independently. Good insight. Thank you @Kenya_Agron

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

2 years ago

Kenyan wheat varieties update video 2024 🌾🇰🇪youtu.be/ZKlH7_cVqa4?si… via @YouTube

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

2 years ago

Compaction from four years ago on the right following a wet potato season. Roots <10cm deep and heading sideways. Vs roots from subsoiled tramlines on the left.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

2 years ago

Trip up through Mau Narok today. 1) this place grows epic Ryegrass, 2) Net Blotch in barley looks challenging, 3) wheat appsars to be planted at very high seed rates, 4) soil compaction, every way you look.

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Isaac Mukonyi @isaacmukonyi6

3 years ago

Search mission to look for the Dog,hopefully it isn't drunk in Barley

David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Search mission to look for the Dog,hopefully it isn't drunk in Barley

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Canola looking super even. Always good to have a project field, in this case after peas last year, sorghum in 2022.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Highlights of last week: Canola that really hung in through the dry period. Barley that bounced back after a dry period. Sunflowers that have only had about 50mm GSR. Peas that would like it to stay dry now!!!

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Isaac Mukonyi @isaacmukonyi6

3 years ago

Amazing team bred for trialing.

David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Amazing team bred for trialing.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Window shopping 😊💭 So many anecdotes picked up yesterday that you just can't get without a conversation with the breeders.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

Barley definitely enjoying the cooler season at Nakuru. One of the smallest trials for several years, but it's important to be ruthless with varieties that don't make the cut.

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David Jones @Kenya_Agron

3 years ago

So we got rain at planting, then the soil promptly dried out down to where the P was placed. This isn't the first time I've seen Magnesium notably increase P uptake (we put AS in to isolate the MgO and the SO3 effect; N was corrected in all treatments to remove that variable).