Keith Norman, formerly Technical Director for Velcourt Ltd has joined Hutchinsons as an external consultant.
The role will see Keith provide consultancy support to the technical areas of the business and help to develop the Foundation and Academy agronomist training programmes already in place within the company.
In his previous position at Velcourt, Keith supported a team of 45 farm managers responsible for farming in excess of 50,000 hectares of commercial crops. His responsibilities included planning and delivery of technical research and knowledge transfer programmes in areas such as crop protection, seed and crop establishment, crop nutrition, precision farming technology and farm management.