Agronomist charges.

[farenheit]

If you think £7/acre for an independent agronomist is expensive, then Boogie on over to a ‘free’ serviced agronomy package with one of the corporates. You’ll soon Adjust your perspective when their 'special price list’ invoices land on the desk, laden with muck and magic potions ‘that any good farmer would use’. Add them up over the year and you’ll get a big (Nutri) Phright.

Independent agronomy all the way, at least their costs are clear and upfront.

Movon mate

 

[Secret Agronomist]

Movon mate

Is that their usual Moddus operandi, do you set the Tempo.

 

[ollie989898]

There is nothing better than the sprayer driver ringing up with an issue seen in a corner of a field. Driving up and down every tramline is still the best vantage point.

If I ever had that I knew I had done something wrong.

All of my area was walked. No quad bike. One client alone had 26 fields of maize, by the time you had got on and off, opened/closed gates etc it wasn't worth it.

These big acreages, I could do from a gateway using a calendar, one good walk out in it in April and you'd have the weed control sorted and never need lay eyes on it much after that...

 

[farenheit]

Is that their usual Moddus operandi, do you set the Tempo.

Christ, I am sitting in my office on a Sunday looking through the green book for puns.

I need to get a life.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

If you get a good one don’t let him / her leave. Massively influential part of the team and can do more for your bottom line than anything or anyone else you could buy or employ. Plus good to have a critical eye who only sees the farm after a period of time not every day so can see changes more than possibly the operator seeing to crop farm more often.

 

[Luke Cropwalker]

If I ever had that I knew I had done something wrong.

All of my area was walked. No quad bike. One client alone had 26 fields of maize, by the time you had got on and off, opened/closed gates etc it wasn't worth it.

These big acreages, I could do from a gateway using a calendar, one good walk out in it in April and you'd have the weed control sorted and never need lay eyes on it much after that...

I disagree, recently had a call from a very good operator about some volunteer potatoes in cereals. I reassured him that if the frost didn't kill them we would tidy up in spring and thanked him for a job well done. The sprayer seat does give a different vantage point, a switched on operator is going to add to the farms' bottom line and that is what counts.

 

[richard hammond]

I disagree, recently had a call from a very good operator about some volunteer potatoes in cereals. I reassured him that if the frost didn't kill them we would tidy up in spring and thanked him for a job well done. The sprayer seat does give a different vantage point, a switched on operator is going to add to the farms' bottom line and that is what counts.

I totally agree, as I have said we are only part of a team,