Top 3 Tips For Growing Crops During a Drought
Supporting farmers during drought conditions
Current Growing Conditions
As the 2025 growing season unfolds, UK farmers are facing significant challenges due to an exceptionally dry April. According to Farmers Weekly, the month was marked by prolonged sunshine and minimal rainfall, intensifying drought concerns across the country. In Scotland, only 32.9mm of rain fell, just 35% of the monthly average, prompting the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to issue water scarcity alerts in several regions.
Similarly, parts of eastern England, such as Warwickshire, experienced as little as 3% of their typical April rainfall. This widespread dryness has led to declining river flows and groundwater levels, posing significant risks to crop establishment and yield potential.
In this context, adopting effective strategies for crop cultivation during drought conditions is more critical than ever.
This technical will outline the top three tips to help farmers navigate the challenges of drought, ensuring sustainable and productive farming practices in the face of water scarcity.
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Top 3 Tips For Growing Crops During A Drought
Tip 1: Understand Your Crops
Understanding how your crops are growing from a nutrient management standpoint is becoming a key consideration for farmers around the world, with periods of drought making this even more critical.
Lack of water and root structure can significantly impact crop growth, development and it’s ability to uptake key nutrients.
Monitoring your crops with a tool such as SAP analysis, providing growers with 72 hours results from our UK labs, will help you:
- Understand the nutritional status of 20+ key nutrients
- Make agronomic decisions, thanks to our agronomist comments
- Grow healthier crops, and manage valuable inputs efficiently
“OMEX is the innovator of the unique SAP service in the UK. Its accuracy is far superior to conventional tissue testing because it measures what has actually been taken up by a plant, and can thus help diagnose rooting problems and availability issues”
Scott Baker, National Agronomy Manager
Tip 2: Bust Crop Stress With Bio 20
Bio 20 is a game changer for crops facing drought conditions, providing essential nutrients and biostimulants to enhance resilience and productivity. Formulated with a balanced blend of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and key trace elements, Bio 20 stimulates root development and improves water-use efficiency, helping crops withstand periods of limited rainfall. Its inclusion of natural biostimulants further boosts plant metabolism, ensuring continued growth even in stressful conditions. By integrating Bio 20 into a crop nutrition strategy, farmers can safeguard yields and maintain crop quality despite prolonged dry spells.
Bio 20
Bio 20
Boosting Yields In Warm WeatherBio 20, part of our biostimulant range, is a plant health promoter used successfully across the globe, consistently producing quality yields in a variety of differing crops.It works as an effective stress buster and a general foliar feed and is ideal for producing quality yields in warm weather or drought conditions.
- Effective Stress Buster
- Biostimulant
- Macro and Micro Nutrition For The Plant
- Increased Crop Yield
- Improved Quality
- Remedies Nutrient Deficiency
- Creates Larger Bolder Harvestable Produce
- Rapid Visual Improvement Following Application To Crops Under Stress
Tip 3: Talk To Your OMEX Agronomist
With unpredictable seasonal weather patterns it’s important you remain in contact with a FACTS qualified advisor to guide you on utilising the most effective crop inputs.
OMEX employs a team of dedicated Crop Nutrition Agronomists to advise farmers on nutritional management programmes. Our agronomy team is equipped with BASIS and FACTS accredited experts, who have decades of experience.
Our team is backed by a worldwide R&D facility, that not only looks at innovative new crop nutrition techniques, but rigorously tests or products and application rates to ensure farmers are applying quality products at optimum rates.
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