Live crop monitoring trials launch at Fife farm
David Aglen, farms manager at Balbirnie Home Farms.
A Fife farm manager will amend crop nutrition in response to live crop monitoring as part of his involvement in an arable trials project.
David Aglen, farms manager at Balbirnie Home Farms near Freuchie, is taking part in the three-year Strategic Cereal Farm project with levy body, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
The first year’s trial will look at whether amending crop nutrition in response to live crop monitoring – using a measure known as the Brix value – will have an economic benefit on crop health, yield and grain quality.