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Why We’re Developing a Cost of Production Benchmarking Tool for Farmers
Over the past few years, farming businesses have faced a perfect storm of challenges. Rising input costs, falling grain prices, changing support schemes, and increasing pressure on margins have all combined to create one of the most difficult economic environments many farmers have experienced. For...
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Yellow Rust in Winter Wheat: What Growers Need to Know This Season
Yellow rust has always been a key disease to monitor in winter wheat, but recent developments mean it deserves even closer attention this season and beyond. A Shift in Yellow Rust Dynamics Last season saw a significant change in the behaviour of yellow rust, with...
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Winter Reflections and Spring Focus: Preparing for the Season Ahead at Indigro
Winter is often seen as the quieter part of the farming calendar, but for those of us in agronomy, it is anything but idle. While the pace in the field may slow, the work behind the scenes rarely does. In many ways, the winter months...
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Harry’s Blog 5: *Insert another rain-based pun here*
Firstly, I hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas and New Year. It feels like a long time since I wrote my previous blog post, so thought I would provide an update on what the Indigro team have been up to in January...
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Harry’s Blog 4: Autumn in Review
I thought I would start this blog post by reviewing this past Autumn and the outlook for most farms. Not much has changed since my previous entry, with the rain continuing to hold us off the land and wet patches still laying wet. The frosts...
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Harry’s Blog 3: Rain stops play
As the rain continues to fall across England, positivity has reached an all-time low. So, I decided to start this blog post on a positive note. Early drilled Winter Oilseed Rape crops are looking very impressive. Residual herbicides and Autumn fungicides are going on now,...
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Harry’s Blog 2. Heatwave
I think the title of this post aptly describes the last month or so. As the new season ramps up and WOSR is beginning to take off, I can’t help but think this hot weather is a month too late. The fact that we are...
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Indigro Careers.
Indigro’s continued growth requires the regular employment of high-calibre trainees and qualified agronomists to join our team. Applications are accepted throughout the year and are welcomed from graduates or those already in employment. Our training programme has been developed over the last ten years to...
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Harry’s Blog 1. New Beginnings
After a couple of years without an update from the Indigro team, the mantel of ‘blog writer’ has been passed to me. I suppose a personal introduction is in order, so here goes. My name is Harry Molton, I am 25 years old from South...
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Talking BYDV – Charlotte Cook
Charlotte Cook discusses the potential risks of BYDV and the decision process before reaching for an insecticide spray.
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Charlotte's Blog 8. I passed!!!
This is a very belated blog, having found out I can call myself an agronomist over a month ago, however the relief I felt has not begun to wear off. The last few weeks have been filled with final visits to crops, pre-harvest meetings, internal...
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Back in the day, and shortly after leaving university, I worked a short-term contract for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). This hugely prestigious organisation traces its origins back to the second world war and to a strategic, military operation to provide an active presence on...
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Charlotte's Blog 7. Just do your best!
If your family are anything like mine from a very young age you will have been told at times of stress just do your best. All you can do is do your best. Throughout school I probably would have met this with a not-so-subtle eye...
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Charlotte's Blog 6. T-minus two weeks until BASIS
Over the last few weeks, I have been attempting to divide my time between helping the team at the busiest time of year and revising. FOMO (Fear of missing out) whilst I’m revising is very real at the moment, and I love any opportunity to...
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You don’t have to be religious to have faith. In fact, the more modern and secular the world becomes, the deeper our faith needs to be. With increasing technological progress, we become ever more removed from the mechanics of these technologies. We no longer know...
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Charlotte's Blog 5. Bring on busy busy!
The weather the last couple of weeks has been about as manic as I’ve felt, trying to make it through the week without losing track of where I’m meant to be. Getting busy has meant that caffeine has become my new best friend and a...
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Charlotte's Blog 4. Hello Spring season.
Spring season is underway, with the weather being typically unpredictable the last few weeks. The crops are slowly starting to move and there is already so much for agronomists to think about and for me to learn. I have spent the last couple of...
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I’ve always been someone who speaks his mind – mainly because I’m not very diplomatic. I am also your classic hypocrite and hands-in-the-air guilty of the “he can give it, but he can’t take it” critique. I don’t choose to be that way, it’s just...
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Carbon Footprinting Arable Systems – Charlotte Cook
Indigro Agronomist Charlotte Cook presents her findings on Carbon Footprinting. Presentation given to Indigro Clients February 2021
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Journey to Regenerative Agriculture
Indigro client Jake Freestone presents his journey to Regenerative Agriculture. Presented to Indigro Clients in February 2021
Continue ReadingCharlotte's Blog 3. A lesson in confidence
Since my last post I have still been spending a large proportion of my time zooming, however this week I was on the presenting rather than the receiving end of a few. I was asked by BASIS to take part in their sustainable webinar series,...
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Charlotte's Blog 2. Winter Hibernation
The cold weather and short days of January initially left me wishing I could curl up somewhere warm and hibernate until signs of spring started to appear. In fact, agronomists seem to go through a form of hibernation at this time of year. Crop walking...
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There are numerous examples of erroneous quoting and cultural misremembering. Julius Caesar never said, “Veni, vidi, vici”. Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary my dear Watson”. And despite it being perhaps the most quoted movie line ever, Humphry Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam”. But...
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Agronomist Damian McAuley January 2021 It’s an embarrassing thing to admit as a parent, but being one is really difficult. It might feel like a shameful admission, but it’s really not. It’s actually an important acknowledgement of the significance of the role. Perhaps one...
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Charlotte's Blog 1. The highs and lows of being a trainee agronomist
Anything but the generic 9-5. Having just completed my masters, under the backdrop of lockdown, when Rob and Roger offered to start my Agronomy Training straight away, I was relieved and frankly a bit smug at having acquired my dream job in such a year!...
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