Helping growers navigate new challenges – South East Farmer

The return of Hutchinsons to this year’s Fruit Focus demonstrates the company’s ongoing commitment to the soft fruit and rapidly growing vineyard sectors.

It provides an ideal opportunity to learn about the specialist environmental, soils and digital services teams that support Hutchinsons agronomists as the demands on producers increase from many angles.

“Increasing labour costs, changes to the portfolio of products available and the need to ensure everything is documented and recorded are just some of those challenges,” said Phil Carpenter, regional director, horticulture.

“Compliance audits are an annual leature of growers’ calendars, with the associated workload. Talking to our teams about easy data capture and retrieval to supportat protocol audit, or for analysis, could be time well spent

Visitors to stand 608 will also be able to learn about the latest approved products exclusive to Hutchinsons, and tools, such as Omnia and class-leading Terramap high definition soil scanning, which are increasingly being used within the fruit and vine sectors.

There will also be an opportunity to discuss the various Innovate UK projects that Hutchinsons is involved with, including the development of a real-time spore detection system, while head of environmental services Georgina Wallis will be speaking in the seminar tent.