- Agricultural Consulting
In the vast and dynamic world of agriculture, the key to success lies not only in planting and harvesting, but also in understanding all aspects of your crop. At mr. Horticulture we understand that every seed planted is an investment in the future, which is why we offer a comprehensive agricultural consulting and advisory service that goes beyond the boundaries of the field. We invite you to explore how our expertise in technical advice and greenhouse consulting can elevate your crops to new heights.
By using our professional team, you have access to an independent resource to help identify opportunities and make the best decisions to advance your Agricultural goals. We’ll look at drainage, tillage practices, crop varieties, pest and plant disease, and any other factors that may be influencing yield or preventing optimum nitrogen use.
The team is dedicated to providing professional and timely service that can enhance your crop program in the following way:
- Greater yields through applying our proprietary fertility planning that uses field or subfield management appropriate to your farm and its goals.
- Improved crop quality by having access to consultants who can evaluate varieties, scout fields, and project optimal harvest dates.
- Better control of pests by helping you to develop an appropriate application strategy and providing a professional assessment of your fields.
- Optimum nutrient use by helping you to identify where and how much nitrogen will be appropriate for maximum growth while minimizing fertilizer expense.
Integrated Pest Management
Integrated pest management is not a single pest control method but, rather, a series of pest management evaluations, decisions and controls. In practicing, growers and agronomy consultants who are aware of the potential for pest infestation follow a four-tiered approach.
Set Action Thresholds
Before taking any pest control action, we sets an action threshold, a point at which pest populations or environmental conditions indicate that pest control action must be taken. Sighting a single pest does not always mean control is needed. The level at which pests will become an economic threat is critical to guide future pest control decisions.
Monitor and Identify Pests
Not all insects, weeds, and other living organisms require control. Many organisms are innocuous, and some are even beneficial. Our programs work to monitor for pests and identify them accurately, so that appropriate control decisions can be made in conjunction with action thresholds. This monitoring and identification optimizes pesticide use to conserve beneficial organisms and control pests.
Prevention
As a first line of pest control, our programs work to manage the crop to prevent pests from becoming a threat. This may mean using cultural methods, such as rotating between different crops, selecting pest-resistant varieties, and planting pest-free rootstock. These control methods can be very effective, cost-efficient, and present little to no risk to people or the environment.
Control
Once monitoring, identification, and action thresholds indicate that pest control is required, our programs allow for the selection of the proper control method both for effectiveness and risk. Effective, less risky pest controls are chosen first, including highly targeted chemicals, such as pheromones to disrupt pest mating, or mechanical control, such as trapping or weeding. If further monitoring, identifications and action thresholds indicate that less risky controls are not working, then additional pest control methods would be employed, such as targeted spraying of pesticides.
What we do
We advise farmers across the agricultural value chain on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Farm operations
Increasingly, we are developing approaches that help farm operators and land-holding management farmers drive operational improvements.
Fresh-food supply chain management
We use an end-to-end perspective on supply-chain management to help our farmers reduce shrinkage and optimize the quality and cost of their fresh fruits, and vegetables.
Investment opportunity identification
We have created a unique perspective on value-creation pools and investment opportunities in food and agriculture. We bring this perspective to our work with private-equity groups and financial investors—and to our work supporting industry players as they plan for strategic growth.
Investment
We combine leading-edge investor insights honed by our private equity experts with agriculture-market insights and proprietary tools to help clients with their range of needs
Digital
We combine the power of our deep-domain expertise in agriculture with thousands of developers, engineers, data architects, and scientists across the technology spectrum.
Agriculture Development & Food Security
We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.
Our work is based on three pillars of action: Education, Health and Agro-livestock farming, seeking the empowerment and financial independence of the communities.
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