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Target Audience
The breadth and scope of knowledge needed for crop protection sales and advice grows every year. New products, new techniques and the way that crop protection fits with other farm and crop management activities all add to the skills needed by those involved in sales and advice for Crop Protection. To cover the range of factors involved, the new BASIS Diploma in Agronomy, gives a comprehensive training and qualification framework for those involved in on-farm advice and sales. For the PPA and the Advanced Crop Module the prior achievement (by examination, exemption or validated certificate) of the BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection is an entry requirement.
Aims
To identify candidates who have sound practical experience in crop protection and who are sufficiently skilled and have a desire to progress within the industry. The cereals module may be used for updating purposes or for staff moving into a new area who are faced with crops not previously experienced.
The Qualification
Optimising cereal yields and achieving market requirements for grain quality increasingly demands close attention to the detail of crop management. The agronomists role is increasingly complex with insect weed and fungal resistance as major issues whilst producing cereals in the context of environmental stewardship and crop assurance schemes
The Cereals module will develop a detailed understanding of the requirements for improving crop management and profitable grain production. Decision-making will be stressed in the participative training for improving, in particular, cereal crop protection.
Participants will study:
• Planning and crop preparation
• Field trials and the scope of agronomy advice
• Crop growth and development
• Weed, pest and disease options
• Control strategies to manage resistance
• The role of nutrition
• Harvest and storage
• Overall Crop management
• Marketing and grain quality
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