Agronomists

[Steevo]

I'd pay him more if he could secure the best product at the best price.

I do pay a set fee and like I said I would happily increase it. My issue is I'd struggle to go out shopping for prices on chem given the time this takes, more potential for the other inputs though.

Buynig group. Simple.

if you want, get your agronomist to price his chems against what you buy for. That would make the decision for you.

 

[Steevo]

Im doing my own agronomy. There are some gaps in my.knowledge but to be honest long term no till was starting to through a few curveballs that I wasnt able to get answers from existing agronomist.

Now ive got a strategy in place one or two conversations with salesman agronomists, use this, the press and niab and to be honest its pretty sorted

Agronomy can be as simple or difficult as you make it.

Nobody can predict the future so prevention and protection is the order of the day.

If something works well, you don't need to jump around to something different each year. The extra few % difference will likely not be noticeably. A rain spell of 3 weeks in July/Aug when you want to get cutting will equalise many other things you agonise over all year.

 

[parker]

Playing devil's advocate here:

If the savings nearly pays for agronomy bill, then surely you'd be better off with serviced agronomy?

have you ever bought chemicals independently ? the difference between companies can be significant.
service price you have little control on price or product used.
supply agronomists are always under pressure to sell that's their job.