🚜 Crop Technician: Learn It. Grow It. Manage It.

Quick Learning Bytes:

🌾 Focus here first — these are the core areas that decide whether a crop AND YOU succeeds, fails, or just survives.

What is ICM?

Integrated Crop Management might sound like a complicated term, but it’s really about balance. At its core, ICM is a way of farming that combines different practices to boost crop yields while protecting natural resources like soil, water, and biodiversity.

Instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach, ICM helps farmers:

Grow healthy crops.
Reduce chemical use responsibly.
Adapt to their environment.

It’s like putting together a puzzle—every piece matters to get the best result!

RB209

RB209, or the Nutrient Management Guide, is a guide that provides best practices for applying fertilizers and organic materials to crops and grassland in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It’s published by the AHDB (Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board)

Go to AHDB Website and download resources

RB209 Video Playlist

Fungicide Chemistry

How fungicides work

Fungicide Performance Data

The AHDB fungicide performance work provides high-quality, independent information

KPIs + Gross Margins

An Agricultural Business generates and lot of data that we can measure, but which measures are useful and how can they be used to help make business improvements?

Key Performance Indicators – KPIs

Some of the data we can record and measure is more useful than others. These key measures or “Key Performance Indicators” – KPIs help monitor a business’s performance as part of routine monitoring.

The most important KPI for any business relates to financial performance, specifically the cost of production of its output.

Read more on KPIs on AHDB website – go to site

Fixed Costs

Typical Fixed Costs

Gross Margins

Gross margins are often misunderstood and more often than not misused! Every enterprise on the farm should have a gross margin produced. Gross margins have become an integral part of farm business management because it simplifies the vast array of farm sizes and types into a unit of production basis. It makes managing and forecasting simpler. You can work out the efficiency of an enterprise by changing the figures such as size of the enterprise and output.