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Download PDF On-farm trials are allowing one Lincolnshire grower to apply a greater level of scrutiny to crop agronomy. CPM finds out. The level of detail you receive in the reports is fantastic and raises your level of understanding. By Tom Allen-Stevens If there’s one aspect of crop agronomy that’ll show more value over the coming years it’ll be the detail behind what you see in the field, believes Alex Borthwick. “You look at yield maps and you think there’s no difference, but drill into the detail and you find it. Going forward we’ll be required to ensure we have good evidence behind our agronomic decisions, and we’ll need it to ensure they’re the right ones for our business too,” he says. Alex is agronomist for RM Cottingham, based at Hoehill Farm, Swinhope on the Lincs Wolds. His father, David, is manager of the 880ha farm, which has winter wheat, winter and spring barley and oilseed rape in the rotation, along with potatoes and sugar beet. “Dad’s been here for forty years, and it’s really useful having his experience – some new ideas turn out to be not so novel after all.” Having trained as an accountant, Alex switched into…
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