2. ‘Assistant Development
Agronomist’
12 month placement assisting in development and marketing trials with
the Development Team in Woolpit, Suffolk.
In the Autumn assisting with predominantly Herbicide trials including;
marking out, spraying, and assessments.
230/03/2016
4. ‘Assistant Development
Agronomist’
12 month placement assisting in development and marketing trials with
the Development Team in Woolpit, Suffolk.
In the Autumn assisting with predominantly Herbicide trials including;
marking out, spraying, and assessments.
In the Winter assisting Technical Services with assembling an excel file
of all BASF products acquiring data from labels etc. Updating the BASF
compatibility list and harvesting speciality crops trials such as Sprouts
and Carrots.
430/03/2016
6. ‘Assistant Development
Agronomist’
12 month placement assisting in development and marketing trials with
the Development Team in Woolpit, Suffolk.
In the Autumn assisting with predominantly Herbicide trials including;
marking out, spraying, and assessments.
In the Winter assisting Technical Services with assembling an excel file
of all BASF products acquiring data from labels etc. Updating the BASF
compatibility list and harvesting speciality crops trials such as Sprouts
and Carrots.
In the Spring assisting Development Agronomists in predominantly
Fungicide trials including; marking out, spraying, and assessments.
630/03/2016
8. ‘Assistant Development
Agronomist’
12 month placement assisting in development and marketing trials with
the Development Team in Woolpit, Suffolk.
In the Autumn assisting with predominantly Herbicide trials including;
marking out, spraying, and assessments.
In the Winter assisting Technical Services with assembling an excel file
of all BASF products acquiring data from labels etc. Updating the BASF
compatibility list and harvesting speciality crops trials such as Sprouts
and Carrots.
In the Spring assisting Development Agronomists in predominantly
Fungicide trials including; marking out, spraying, and assessments.
In the Summer assisting Development Agronomists in Fungicide trials
including; harvests and grain lab work.
830/03/2016
10. Links back to Degree Studies
Skills gained from certain modules in 1st and 2nd year of my BSc
Agriculture Degree have helped me during my placement including;
Introductory Plant Pathology – Gave me a basic understanding of the
way in which plant diseases infect plants and spread. This helped me
understand how diseases such as Rusts and Septoria spread
differently which has been useful when assessing crops for disease.
Crop Management Challenge – Made me aware of problematic cereal
diseases and how to protect them using fungicides. I began to learn
from this some of the BASF product portfolio.
Applied Crop Science – I learnt about the different growing habits of
various crop families which has helped me to identify weeds in
herbicide trials. Also, why plants in similar families are more difficult to
control (Charlock in OSR).
1030/03/2016
11. Work skills
PA6
Weed, Disease and Pest
identification
First Aid at Work
Excel user
Toxic waste handling
Inoculating wheat plants with
Rust
1130/03/2016
14. Transferable skills
Engaging with students at recruitment fairs
Team work – working in groups of up to 6 people when harvesting root
crop trials or other speciality crops.
1430/03/2016
16. Transferable skills
Engaging with students at recruitment fairs
Team work – working in groups of up to 6 people when harvesting root
crop trials or other speciality crops.
Working with a wide range of people and prioritising jobs.
Communication skills with managers and colleagues
Agronomy skills picked up and basic agrochemistry knowledge should
help towards a future crop science career.
Initiative to look for jobs during quiet times of the year.
Health & Safety training for working with Hazardous Chemicals
Establishing a 5-a-side team with predominantly people from work
1630/03/2016
17. Areas to improve
I would like to improve my communication skills when I work in groups
Become more confident in identifying weeds, pests and diseases
Understand the Agro-chemistry market more fully
Carry out a project to follow one trial from the start to the finish
1730/03/2016
18. Plans for the rest of the placement
Fungicide Re-registration trial on Strawberries – Research Project
Eduardo a Development Agronomist carrying out the trial
I will accompany him for marking out, spraying, assessing, harvesting
and measuring yield.
The product is for the control of Botrytis Cinerea
Oversprays
It is likely that some trials will require oversprays to control diseases or
weeds in severe situations. As ADA’s it will be our job to spray these
trials.
1830/03/2016
19. Thank you for listening
1930/03/2016
Any Questions?
