Growers and Processors

Do you need products with full traceability to the field that they are grown in, with the ability to show exactly how they have been grown?

Do you want specific flavours?
Do you want to be able to make individual specific claims on the packaging?
Do you want specific varieties with specific traits?
Do you want British?

Place UK use Integrated Crop Management systems. We:

• Prepare the fertility and structure of the soil with cover crops
• Use beetle banks to maintain and encourage beneficial insects
• Use predators to control pests

            > Nematodes for Vine Weevil
            > Phytoseiulus for red spider
            > Amblyseius for tarsonemid mites
            > Bacilius Thuringiensis for caterpillars
            > Parasitic wasps for green fly
            > Pherimone traps for strawberry blossom weevils and trials for Raspberry Beetles.

We use Neutron probes and the real time Enviroscan to measure the moisture in the soil to control our individual field trickle irrigation systems, thus making optimum use of our valuable water resources to obtain the optimum quality of our fruit.

We carry out pre-planting soil analysis and then correct it to the optimum levels of elements for the crop which will be grown.

We monitor the nutrient level of the growing crop in each field by taking leaf analysis's, which allow us to add fertigation to the trickle irrigation to maintain the required levels.