GPS soil sampling, mapping and variable rate application specialists

Technical, Agronomy and Precision Services including GPS soil sampling, GPS mapping and irrigation advice in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire for all field vegetable and salad crops: lettuce, onions, leeks, potatoes, carrots, celery, parsnips and brassicas.

Fresh Produce Consultancy Ltd was formed in 1993 and is managed by David Norman BSc(hons). David is an agronomist with over 25 years of practical experience in intensive production of vegetable and salad crops.

He has a degree in Environmental Plant Geography from Reading University where he studied plant root and soil interactions.

David Norman working in the filed

He has certificates of competence from BASIS, FACTS and HACCP and is a founder member of the Vegetable Consultants Association.

After graduation he worked as a research agronomist with PGRO and then MAFF. Following this he spent 10 years as an independent consultant agronomist with ADAS, before launching Fresh Produce Consultancy in 1993.

Since 1993 Fresh Produce Consultancy has provided a range of technical, agronomy and precision services to vegetable and salad producers, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

GPS Precision Sampling
Standard or GPS precision soil sampling and analysis for variable rate nutrient applications or nematodes.

GPS Land Area Mapping
Field area measurement for land rental, payment schemes or planting maps.

Water Irrigation Scheduling
Efficient and sustainable water use, programming water for crop need.

Quad, insect traps and field worker

Soil Moisture
Measurement of soil moisture deficit, avoiding crop stress.

Disease Forecasting
Predicting development of onion leaf diseases, botrytis and downy mildew.

Pest Monitoring
Pheromone systems for cutworm, silver-y-moth and diamondback moths. Trapping for thrips, carrot fly and cabbage root fly.

GPS soil sampling, mapping and variable rate input specialists.

Technical, Agronomy and Precision Services including GPS soil sampling, GPS mapping and irrigation advice in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire for all field vegetable and salad crops: lettuce, onions, leeks, potatoes, carrots, celery, parsnips and brassicas.