Blog - Agrovista

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.

20/07/2020

An agronomist's view of recent times

Agronomist Ollie Johnson looks after Agrovista customers across the midlands. Here he reflects on the challenges and opportunities of recent times, particularly the changes instigated by COVID-19.

14/07/2020

Project Lamport update 6 - R&D

For our sixth blog update, Niall is joined by Technical Manager Mark Hemmant, to discuss R&D at Project Lamport.

06/07/2020

Project Lamport update 5 - FAQs

The Agrovista soil heath team interview our Lamport experts to ask the questions that you’re likely to have.

29/06/2020

Project Lamport update 4 - Plot updates

We began Lamport on a quest to reduce blackgrass and we achieved this from the moment we implemented cover crops. We’ve come down from 2000 heads/m2 to 3-4 heads/m2 because our systems are so effective, as demonstrated here.