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Technology Trials
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Giving You the Answers You Need
Farmers in Great Britain are faced with an increasing number of options and choices. How to decide which seed variety, sowing date, and the subsequent crop protection products, programmes and sequences to choose from can be confusing.
The unique Agrovista growers choice insite Trials now take the guesswork out of those choices, by utilising the information, from the independent and widely based series of plot trials conducted on a yearly basis. More than 400 high quality replicated trials - comprising thousands of individual plots - are conducted each year, and monitored through to harvest. These give our customers the unbiased answers they need to optimise returns
The key features of the Agrovista growers choice insite Trials are:-
- Independent choices of products and varieties to give the most profitable crop returns
- Cost-effective solutions to farmers cropping problems
- Based on a range of soil types and climatic variations on over 50 farms throughout Britain
- Existing and new products from more than 20 manufacturers
- Co-ordinated to develop an ICM (Integrated Crop Management) approach with environmental care
- Unbiased results to maximise our customers profits
This wealth of impartial information is interpreted to our customers through in-field agronomy advisors. The aim of Agrovista growers choice insite Trials is to help our agronomy team to plan, monitor and evaluate crop inputs every step of the way to give you, the farmer, a profitable harvest.
Arable farmers with cereal growing as a priority in their business will be able to visit Agrovista growers choice insite Trials sites during the forthcoming season. See the NIAB-Agrovista page, or the events page on this site.
All will be evaluated and taken to yield.
To learn more, please contact your local Agrovista agronomist or email enquiries@agrovista.co.uk
In addition to the work on cereals and Oilseed rape, Agrovista growers choice insite also conducts extensive trials on:
- Fruit - latest technology is evaluated to maximise yields whilst satisfying the complex demands of legislation, protocols and consumer expectation.
- Sugar Beet - The most comprehensive trials and recommendations on herbicides - many exclusive to Agrovista
- Potatoes - A specialised research facility investigating blight fungicides, plant growth regulators and herbicides. Other sites will be established in the main growing areas investigating potato cyst nematode, fertilisers, volunteer control and other aspects of crop technology
- Vegetables - Trials are conducted on a very wide range of crops so that Agrovista Agronomists are the most up to date in the country with particular respect to Crop Assurance Schemes.
The key areas of Agrovista’s agronomy trials in recent years are the development of new and established products and varieties including:
- Fungicides
- Blackgrass and other grassweeds
- Fertilisers
- Fungicide and Nitrogen interaction
- Integrated Crop Management
- Application Technology
- Potatoes
- Seed treatment
- Sowing dates and drilling dates
- Sugar beet weed control
- Varieties from all the main breeders
- Vegetables
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