How a grower trained to be his own agronomist

摘要

Benchmarking against other farmers is a great way to identify cost savings and it was the starting point for Cornish farmer Ashley Jones's journey to train as an agronomist.Having previously used a local agronomy company for crop walking and providing recommendations at Smea-ton Farm, Saltash, the turning point was when he joined the AHDB monitor farm programme and tenchmarking group.