Supporting Southwest farmers with qualified advice
Agronomy
With fully certified and qualified agronomists on our team, you can ensure that you’re making the best decisions when it comes to your soil management.
Ruminant Nutrition
The Southwest is renowned for its prize-winning livestock and we take great pride in specialising in keeping our client’s beef and sheep stocks healthy and profitable.
Our Services
By giving qualified, industry leading advice, and working with only the best partners we help farms all over the Southwest grow and thrive. We’ve maximised efficiency, reduced inputs and increased profitability for farms all across the Southwest, helping them keep the focus on what’s most important to them.
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Our B.A.S.I.S qualified crop walking service helps ensure our clients’ crops are looked after and performing to the best of their ability. We offer a full service and supply package or a crop walking only service. This service is well suited for low input or organic systems as well as members of buying groups.
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Our soil sampling service helps our clients establish the nutrient status of their farm. This can range from standard tests, which include PH, Phosphate potash and magnesium through to organic matter and full trace element packages. From this we craft a nutrient management plan. Together, we use this to plan our client’s crop fertiliser requirements by maximising the potential of their surplus and manures aswell as legumes and catch crops.
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If artificial fertilisers are required, we are on hand to advise on grades and application rates. As fertiliser agents, we regularly supply both compound and blended solid fertilisers from single bags to multiple artic trailers. For established crops we have access to a range of foliar nutritional products.
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As part of our clients’ integrated farm management plan, we regularly advise on the use of crop protection products, where needed, to help their crops combat weeds, pests and diseases. We work with our suppliers to be able to offer a portfolio of crop protection products delivered direct to farm.
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Taking guidance from the most up to date recommended and descriptive lists, we regularly advise our clients on their seed requirements. Working directly with a seed house based in the South West, we are in the unique position to offer off the shelf and bespoke grass mixes, stewardship mixes, forage crops, fodder, beet pulses and cereals.
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Knowing the nutrient value of our clients’ on farm feeds is the basis of building their ration. Forages and grains can be collected and laboratory analysed. The reports they receive can be used to help adjust rations as well as giving feedback on crop nutrition and agronomy.
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As members of the A.I.C feed adviser register we are able to help our clients design a ration to make their livestock production system as efficient as possible. We help them ensure they make the most of the feeds that they can grow on their farm cutting the needs for purchased feeds. Ensuring that our clients’ ration supplies adequate nutrients, without oversupply, helps both their profitability and the environment.
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When there is a need to purchase feeds to make up ration shortfalls, we are on hand to help advise on clients on the most cost effective options. We work with U.F.A.S accredited merchants and manufacturers to supply quality straights, compounds, blends and milk powders.
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Ensuring the animals’ requirements for vitamins, trace elements and mineral is met is essential for a healthy heard or flock. We work with a well respected South West based manufacturer to supply quality buckets, drenchs and loose bagged materials for dairy, beef and sheep systems. We offer a forage and grassland mineral sampling services to establish the mineral status of our clients’ farm, and design a bespoke product.
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