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BASF Crop Protection – Placement Year
Jerome Fielder30/03/2016
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‘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.
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Autumn…
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‘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.
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Winter…
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‘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.
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Spring…
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‘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.
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Summer…
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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).
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Work skills PA6
Weed, Disease and Pest identification
First Aid at Work
Excel user
Toxic waste handling
Inoculating wheat plants with Rust
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Transferable skills Engaging with students at recruitment fairs
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Example 1: Recruiting Students
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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.
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Example 2: Team Work
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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
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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
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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.
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Thank you for listening
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