A long time in gestation, this project began in July. A follow up to the Future Proofing Vegetable Production project, Vegetable Production Nitrogen Management Workshops was intended to run a series of workshops and field days around the country. Tripped up by Covid and growers with lack of staff, the project was redesigned as creating online workshops with recorded presentations and videos from the field.
We have also written a series of learning courses on our new website. You’ll have to sign up (for free) to access them because a login is needed to keep track of your progress. And there are some self-test questions to help reinforce the messages if you’d like to check your understanding.
Course 1 Nutrient management for vegetable crops covers nutrient management principles, taking representative samples, and nitrogen as a special case.
Course 2 is “How to run an on-farm fertiliser rate trial”. It is based on the “On-Farm Trial Guide” and covers the 10 point plan for running a successful trial.
Our next section is focused on fertiliser equipment calibration. We’ve already got some video in the can thanks to Extremekid Productions.