Agronomy Services

Rawlinson & Brown's agronomists are part of the CRT Agri-Services group. This network of over 240 CRT agronomists, viticulturalists and horticulturalists are kept up-to-date with the latest products and farming techniques. This ensures that we can help you quickly adapt to the latest use patterns and market requirements, keeping your operation efficient and profitable.

On Farm Advice

Our agronomists will provide on farm advice for all your cropping and permanent planting needs. This includes:

• Crop monitoring
• Weed identification
• Insect threshold analysis
• Disease assessments
• Crop rotation and paddock planning
• Chemical and fertiliser recommendations
• Whole farm planning
• Irrigation layout design
• Soil moisture monitoring (Agents for Hansen data loggers)

Our experienced team can provide you with a range of cropping solutions, from dryland and irrigation, to summer and winter production.

Farm Budgeting

We will assist you with your budgeting requirements, to ensure that your farm business remains viable and sustainable. This advice includes:

• Pre-season meetings with market outlook discussions
• Crop gross margin budgeting
• Back Paddock Software to plan all aspects of your operation
• Water budgeting
• Nutrient budgeting
• CRT finance options
• Yield estimations for harvest and insurance needs

Precision Agriculture

Rawlinson & Brown are industry leaders in the practical use of precision agriculture within our area. Our highly experienced team have a thorough understanding of GPS and GIS systems as well as an understanding of remote sensed data including, airborne multi spectral imagery and electromagnetic induction instruments. This combined with a comprehensive understanding of paddock surveying and sampling techniques, means you can target the results you desire.

We utilise SST Toolbox software, which is the world leading GIS platform for agriculture. A data storage service is also provided to keep all your geo-referenced information in a useable format and secure environment. We emphasis the need for you to collect this data (e.g. yield data) even if practical use is not possible today, so that it can be used in the future when the technology inevitably evolves.

• Data collection and storage for future use
• Variable Rate Prescriptions (chemical and fertiliser)
• Analysis of paddock trends
• Interpretation of GIS data
• Electro Magnetic Surveys (EM-31 and EM-38)
• Remote Sensing Data (Aerial & Satellite)
• GPS Hardware advice and sales
• GIS Software advice and sales

 

Updated July 28, 2010