VCA Members

Skills:
Consultancy, trials and development for onion and Brassica crops. Store design and construction including all aspects of heating, cooling, ventilation and control.

Skills:
Brassica Crops and Disease in Vegetables,particulary soil borne pathogens.
Business and organisation management. Conservation, biotechnology & molecular modification, nutrition. Expert witness. Overseas expertise in Asia, Europe, N. America, N. Africa (especially Egypt)

Languages: French

Skills:
Strategic technical consultancy to global food business. Leafy salads, tomatoes, sweet pepper, roots, Alliums, Brassicas, mango, pineapple, legumes. Project management, Pesticide stewardship and management, BRC, HACCP, Traceability systems, Auditing food businesses, Quality management systems, Environmental stewardship. Integrated crop management.

Languages: Bi-lingual Spanish

Skills:
Potatoes, carrots, parsnips Decision support systems. Experience UK, Portugal and Spain

Languages: Basic Spanish and French

Skills:
Agrochemicals, Post harvest esp.potatoes, Business management, Hygiene.

Languages: Spanish, Basic Italian and French

Skills:
Leafy salads, herbs, field veg, cut flowers, wild flower field margins & seed production. Experienced in crop production in the UK, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Kenya, Peru & Ireland

Languages: Basic French

Skills:
Crop Agronomy - all aspects of Alliums & Salads. Lettuce, celery, onions, leeks, speciality salads.
Precision Agronomy - GPS soil sampling and mapping, variable rate technology, all field crops.
Irrigation Scheduling - Schedulting services for all field crops.
Research - Pesticide and nutrition field trials
Training - FACTS, BASIS

Skills:
All aspects of onion and brassica crops.
Store design and construction
BASIS tutor.

Languages: Basic French

Skills:
Bulb onions, parsnips, carrots (standard and baby), leeks, leaf / root brassicas (standard and baby).
Minor interests: beetroot, sweetcorn, dwarf beans.
Operates in UK, Spain and Middle East

Languages: Basic French, Swahili, Spanish

Skills:
Professional Profile:
• Agronomist and Technical Manager, BASIS and FACTS.
• Potatoes, Vegetables, Salads and Growing Strategies.
• Skilled in managing supply chain challenges and pesticide residues issues.
• Respected Mentor.

Skills:
• Asparagus - technical management and agronomy
• Container grown herbs - management and technical advice
• Stone fruit - agronomy co-ordination & technical management
• Composting/growing media
• HACCP
• Trial design
• Auditing
• UK, USA and Northern Europe

Skills:
• Agronomy and technical consultancy services.
• 25 years experience in the production of field and protected grown vegetables and leafy salads.
• Basis member for 14 years.
• Crops covered include:
• Leafy Salads - Outdoor & Protected.
• Baby Leaf Crops - Outdoor & Protected.
• Hydroponic Leafy Salad Production.

Skills:
Provides a range of technical and agronomy consultancy services.
• Over 15 years experience growing field vegetables and in the supply of multiple retailers.
• Good all round Horticultural / Agricultural knowledge covering protected cropping, cut flowers and fruit.
• Experienced in both UK and overseas production and in solving problems on the ground to deliver the crop to the customer specification.
• Holds the Diploma in Agronomy, Basis and Facts scheme member.
• Excellent industry contacts which allow commercial opportunities to be developed.
• Understand and experienced in current retailer commercial and technical requirements.
• Technically qualified but also very commercially experienced.
• Represents Industry on several grower boards.

Skills:

Skills:
• Crop protection and crop production
• Bioprotection and sustainability advocate
• Specialist vegetables and organic production
• Product development and market insights
• Soft fruit and ornamentals management and technical advice/support
• Container grown stock production and hydroponics

Languages: English, Bulgarian and basic Turkish and basic Lithuanian

Skills:
• Conventional and Organic consultancy: Carrot, Parsnip, Onion, Lettuce and brassicas.
• Fresh produce business management
• Remote data collection, weather data and soil moisture Management
• Decision support systems
• Experience: UK, Ireland and Portugal

Skills:
• Comprehensive, conventional and organic, agronomy advice for onions, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, salads, brassicas, grass seed and all combinable crops.
• Advice on regenerative systems and rotations.

Skills:
• All aspects of onion and shallot seed production, storage, quality and sale
• Trials and basic breeding for onion
• Variety development
• International seed logistics

Skills:
• Weed control in field vegetable crops
• Research - Trial design and management of crop nutrition, pesticide and agronomy trials
• Agronomy and consultancy - outdoor field vegetables – Brassicas, onions, carrots, parsnips, cucurbits, sweetcorn.
• FACTS, BASIS

Skills:
• All aspects of Onion production & agronomy
• Onion storage
• Supply chain compliance & technical

Skills:
• Research – Applied field research, molecular biology, analytical chemistry, microbiology and glasshouse work. Plant pathology
• Integrated pest management. Pest and disease monitoring
• Qualifications and professional memberships:
BSc (Hons) Biology. PhD in Plant Pathology. Ambassador for the British Society of Plant Pathology. Member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB) and Association of Applied Biologists.

Skills:
• Full service agronomy of Bulb Onions, Potatoes, Carrots, Parsnips, Root/Leafy Brassicas, AD and Arable Crops
• Specialist in early crop production
• BASIS and FACTS Qualified

Skills:
• 15+ years’ experience in the Potato Industry
• Potato Agronomy and technical consultancy services
• Trials: Management of crop nutrition, pesticide and agronomy trials
• BASIS, FACTS
• Teach/Train: BASIS Advanced (Potatoes)

Skills:
Minimising potential waste by adding value to surplus primary foods. Enhancing Food S & other technical competences within the Supply Chain - BRC, SALSA, Organic Certification & HACCP. Creating & developing alternative & innovative Supply Chains. Engaging with Public Sector Food Procurement agencies & Producers to exploit opportunities to supply. Evaluation of post-harvest operations for business improvement. Group facilitation to foster collaboration & co-operation.

Languages: French and Spanish

Skills:
All outdoor vegetables - brassicas, salad onions, Iceberg and specialty lettuce, spinach, radish and leeks.

Weed, pest and disease identification.

Skills:
NFT & rockwool production of specialty tomatoes in UK, Italy & Sicily. Herbs, salads & vegetable crops under protection.
Processing salads outdoor.
Pesticide use and monitoring including residue testing.

Languages: Welsh

Skills:
Brassicas, curcubits, antichokes
Brassica chain issues. Pesticide magement for retail, NPD techniques, BRC Audits, Value chain management. Brassica production issues. New product development.

Languages: Basic German, Spanish & Italian

Skills:
Use of fertilisers and growing media in the horticultural, agricultural and amenity sectors, including development of new products.

Trials and development. Training and Marketing

Skills:
Lettuce, Asparagus, herbs, spinach, spring onion & radish.

Business Management, team development