Blog - Agrovista

04/01/2021

Ensuring a sustainable approach to landscaping

Ensuring efficient, effective and sustainable working practices is of paramount importance for our landscape team. Ed Smith discusses some of the recent steps they've taken to support this objective for not only themselves, but customers too.

09/12/2020

Time to assess soils following tricky autumn

Yorkshire-based Agronomist Bob Wilkin is part of Agrovista’s dedicated Soil Health team. In our latest blog, Bob reviews soil health status in his region, following the problematic weather many experienced this autumn.

26/11/2020

Boosting apple production with specialist training system

Earlier this year, Agrovista’s top fruit consultant Leon Jahae explained the benefits of training plum crops using the Drapeau Lehner system. Now recommends adopting the same system for apple growing, and discusses why in this informative blog post.

10/11/2020

Chilli growing challenge results

The marketing team’s chilli growing competition has now been judged. Marketing Coordinator Siobhan Sandel gives a final update on her plants and shares comments from the team about their experiences.

04/11/2020

Autumn agronomy update for the midlands

Agronomist Rosie Tomlinson looks after customers across Shropshire and Staffordshire and is part of Agrovista’s Shrewsbury team. Having conducted regular field walking this autumn, she reflects on the current status of crops for her growers.

12/10/2020

Early phoma risk in OSR

With oilseed rape crops growing ahead this season, Trainee Technical Manager Chris Dickinson wants to make sure that the threat of phoma isn’t forgotten.

21/09/2020

New entrants - the chicken or the egg

In his latest blog post, agronomist Ollie Johnson discusses the barriers to entering the industry, particularly for those from non-farming backgrounds.

10/09/2020

An update on Agrovista chillies

The marketing team’s chilli growing competition was launched back in February and now it’s time to push through the final month in preparation for judging. Marketing Coordinator Siobhan Sandel gives an update on her plants and how she’s been getting on.

01/09/2020

Weighing up drilling dates

With growers eager to plant winter cereal crops, to avoid a potential repeat of last year, agronomist Andrew Pendry advises on some key watch-outs for early drilling of winter wheat.