NIAB courses delivered by ARTIS Training this January in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire and East Yorkshire focus on the control of black-grass, disease control in wheat, nutrient management for combinable crops and field vegetables, and optimising and improving potato crops.
Better black-grass control to reduce threat to yield and profit
Trainer: John Cussans, NIAB TAG
This half-day course focuses on black-grass management in combinable crop rotations. It covers the use of cultural control, herbicides and using a decision tool to calculate the economic impacts of management strategies across the rotation.
Course fee: £120 + VAT
Better control and avoidance of disease in wheat
10 January 2018, Cambridge
Trainer: Bill Clark, NIAB TAG
This one-day course is sponsored by Dow AgroSciences and provides an overview of more technical aspects of disease control and advanced control strategies. It includes a look into fungicide programmes for the future, taking into account resistance issues, loss of active ingredients and the effect of EU legislation.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
11 January 2018, Cambridge
Trainer: Stuart Knight, NIAB TAG
This one-day course covers the latest thinking on the management of soil and fertiliser nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and magnesium for cereals, oilseeds and pulses and circumstances where micronutrient fertiliser is needed.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Optimising nutrient management for field vegetables
23 January 2018, Cambridge
Trainer: Paul Lewis, Harper Adams University
This one-day course covers the latest thinking on the management of soil nutrient supply and plant uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, magnesium and micro-nutrients for field horticultural crops.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
24 January 2018, Cambridge
Trainer: Nathan Morris
This one-day course covers types of cover crops and the reasons for growing them as well as how to select and deploy the correct crop in arable rotations and analyse data to assess their efficacy and value.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Profitable growing of vegetable brassicas
25 January 2018, Boston, Lincolnshire
Trainer: Andy Richardson, Allium & Brassica Centre
This one-day course provides advice on managing crop production and weed, pest and disease control in vegetable brassicas to achieve maximum commercial crop yields and quality. It includes the principles of integrated crop management and field planning and how to optimise growing in practice.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
25 January 2018, Telford, Shropshire
Trainer: Bryce Rham, independent agronomist
This one-day course takes place in both the classroom and the field and includes the identification of common weeds, diseases and pests. It also includes an overview of nutrients and the effects they have on crop production and the effects of plant growth regulators.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Essentials of good soil management
30 January 2018, Cambridge
Trainer: Mel Holloway, ADAS RSK
This one-day classroom and field-based course covers to principles of good soil management and well as tips for practical soil assessment. The principles addressed are relevant across all crops. Discussions will be adapted to the technical issues that are of most interest to course participants.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Understanding and optimising potato nutrition
30 January 2018, Driffield, East Yorkshire
Trainer: Dr Marc Allison, NIAB CUF
This half-day course is suitable for agronomists, potato business employees, supply chain employees, farm managers and farmers with practical experience. It covers sources of information, nutrient requirements, and fertiliser recommendations.
Course fee: £120 + VAT
Book this course together with Improving potato yields and profitability by measuring and monitoring performance on the same day for a full day of training.
Improving potato yields and profitability by measuring and monitoring performance
30 January 2018, Driffield, East Yorkshire
Trainer: Dr Marc Allison, NIAB CUF
This half-day course is suitable for agronomists, potato business employees, supply chain employees, farm managers and farmers with practical experience. It covers recording protocols, data collation and how to measure and interpret the data.
Course fee: £120 + VAT
Book this course together with the Understanding and optimising potato nutrition course on the same day for a full day of training.
Understanding potato crop growth stages
31 January 2018, Driffield, East Yorkshire
Trainer: Dr Mark Stalham, NIAB CUF
This half-day course covers characteristics of potatoes (e.g. clonal, perishable); growth keys (e.g. BBCH); seed (dormancy, apical dominance, physiological and chronological age, sprouting, storage temperature, pathology, size, cutting); emergence (soil temperature, planting depth, pathology); root growth (soil conditions, variety) and much more.
Course fee: £120 + VAT
Book this course together with the Scheduling irrigation to optimise yield and quality in potatoes course on the same day for a full day of training.
Scheduling irrigation to optimise yield and quality in potatoes
31 January 2018, Driffield, East Yorkshire
Trainer: Dr Mark Stalham, NIAB CUF
This half-day course covers estimating evapotranspiration demand (including a modelling tool exercise); drought tolerance; soil water supply, measurement tools, application (equipment and monitoring) and more.
Course fee: £120 + VAT
Book this course together with the Understanding potato crop growth stages course on the same day for a full day of training.