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Hutchinsons

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Hutchinsons are one of the leading agronomy companies and provide the highest standards of independent agronomic advice to farmers and growers, together with the efficient supply of a complete range of agronomic inputs.

With a turnover of in excess of £220 million, the business has grown to become the leading national agricultural and horticultural input advice and supply company. Hutchinsons takes a dynamic, forward-thinking approach to supporting grower clients in the production of quality crops and food in a sustainable and responsible manner.

The Hutchinsons team of over 200 arable agronomists are located throughout the UK. These technical specialists know how important it is to provide the best advice and are highly qualified professionals holding BASIS, FACTS, Conservation Management, The Plant Protection Award and Soil & Water Management qualifications. Continuing professional development and regular training take place, in order to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date technical service to the professional grower.

Long-term grower and agronomist relationships, based on mutual understanding and trust, ensure agronomy advice is combined with local knowledge and experience, including specialist precision and soil assessments. Decisions taken are based on sound business principles, practical implementation and what is right for individual growers. Hutchinsons work with all the major agrochemical research and development manufacturers, investing significant amounts of capital and resource in trials and new projects. Advice is completely independent of manufacturers and is supported by an in-house research and development programme across a range of soil types, crops and inputs.

With a long history of carrying out research trials, and numerous regional trial centres all around the country, the trial open days are an opportunity for farmers and growers to benefit directly from the findings of the Hutchinsons team. Hutchinsons also runs longer term research projects, currently the Helios Project with the aim of improving light interception in orchards and the Helix Project, operating from the Helix Technology Development Farm hosted courtesy of JW Pitts and Sons in Northampton.

The Helix farm is a central collaborative research hub for the Hutchinsons Helix project that trials and adapts new technology developments and innovations on a whole-farm scale. Insights from these trials are then used to inform and improve crop management decision making and management of the overall farm and business. The Helix project is currently focussed on soil nutrition, the prediction of risk and justification of decision making, farm sustainability and modern plant breeding traits – alongside other longer-term projects.

All technologies tested on the Helix farm are managed through one central hub – Omnia Precision, the first whole field precision farming system to use Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis for seed and nutritional planning. Omnia uses advanced algorithms to calculate the optimum solution for each individual area within the field, irrespective of the number of map layers you wish to include or different zone shapes. Omnia can also be used to analyse multiple years of yield maps, mapping the long-term performance of the field irrespective of the crop.

Omnia’s latest service – TerraMap – is the world’s highest resolution mapping system, collecting over 800 points per hectare. TerraMap is a passive, gamma-ray technology high-definition soil scanning service, measuring common nutrient properties, pH, soil texture, organic matter and CEC as well as elevation, plant available water and naturally emitted isotopes in the soil. There are very few limitations to when TerraMap can be used as it is not affected by soil moisture, compaction, crop cover or cultivation state. Together with Omnia it enables agronomists and growers to make the most of precision technology.

For more information please contact Stuart Hill (Head of Technology & Innovation) or visit the Hutchinsons, Omnia Precision and Helix websites.

You can also follow us on Facebook @HLHutchinsons and Twitter at @Hutchinsons_Ag & @Omniaprecision

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Hutchinsons joined AgriTech East in 2014, and I have been involved since early 2017. Technology and Innovation is all about networking and looking beyond your business and the industry for solutions that could benefit growers.

AgriTech East has provided a dynamic forum for ideas and connecting people both in and out of the industry. Fundamentally, collaborations and technology must provide a benefit to growers and our business, whether that’s efficiency, productivity or ultimately profitability.

Stuart Hill, Head of Innovation & Technology

Baseline for soil carbon vital ahead of changes, says Hutchinsons conference chair

Before making changes to soil carbon, Gary Mills-Thomas advised farms to assess their individual carbon situation to provide a baseline to measure changes against. TerraMap Carbon and Omnia Carbon management offered an ideal means of doing this.

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Using farm trials to build more sustainable farming systems

Farm trials provide an excellent test-bed for the latest tools and technology in real-world situations, but often results can be considered in isolation, potentially overlooking the complex interactions across farming systems. Hutchinsons’ Helix Farm Initiative is different though. Across a network of demonstration farms, it is evaluating the latest technology and agronomic techniques, alongside the wider impact on factors such as soil health, rotation planning and carbon footprinting, to help farmers improve economic and environmental sustainability.

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FieldView And Omnia Collaboration To Enhance Data Integration For Farmers

The transfer, sharing and analysis of digital data is to become faster and more efficient through a collaboration between Hutchinsons and Bayer. Hutchinsons Omnia and Bayer FieldView users will be able to synchronise data between the two systems, allowing growers to increase knowledge and improve decision making on their farms.

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Clever cultivation advised by Hutchinsons for 2021 to protect soil health

Clever cultivation can mean anything from not cultivating at all to subsoiling or ploughing where necessary.” says Ian Robertson, head of soil health at Hutchinsons. “As a general rule, never cultivate at the same depth every year and make sure whatever you do delivers what the soil actually needs.”

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Terramap Carbon: the UK’s first Carbon Mapping Service now available – Matt Ward, Sam Hugill

Hutchinsons launches TerraMap Carbon the first ever carbon mapping service to provide the most accurate baseline measurement of both organic and active carbon in the soil and is now available...

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Variable rate drilling more accessible than ever

An Exciting and affordable variable rate conversion kit comes to market Converting a standard land metered drill into a variable rate drill has never been easier or more affordable with the launch this spring of a new variable drill conversion kit, Omnia E-Seed.

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App takes crop walking to new level – Lewis McKerrow

A new version of the Omnia Scout app has been launched to make it easier for growers and agronomists to share crop walking information and update field records remotely ...

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Is it drainage or water management? – South East Farmer – Dick Neale

Drainage is generally considered to be the process of emptying a place or mass of liquid. In the relationship with soil, drainage is about controlling any excess water beyond that which the soil can naturally hold or store. It is key to understand the component of water storage in soil. Just being focused on moving water through and out of soil as quickly as possible during wet winter periods ignores the needs of crops later in the year, when they will be reliant on the soil’s ability to store and then release that water.

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Keith Norman to join Hutchinsons

Keith Norman, formerly Technical Director for Velcourt Ltd, has joined Hutchinsons as an external consultant.

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