BASIS - Advanced Module - Sugar Beet

This course is designed for professional consultants, advisers and representatives working in the crop protection industry. It will also be of value to managers of crop protection products, farmers with a large arable concern and those qualified for the BASIS Professional Register who want to extend and update their specialist knowledge or who wish to gain Continuing Professional Development Points. There is an optional examination to qualify towards the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy.

Benefits

As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the requirements for growth, development and management of the sugar beet crop.
• Make decisions that are agronomically, economically
• Gain Continuing Professional Development points.

Course content

• Soil types and site selection.
• Crop protection including current developments.
• Crop establishment.
• Factory requirements for harvesting, handling and storage.
• Crop mechanisation.
• World sugar market and gross margins.
• Fertilisers - practice and progress.

Qualification

Successful examination qualifies one out of four modules required for the BASIS Advanced Certificate or the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy  and the newly accredited Harper Adams University College 'Graduate Diploma in Agronomy with Environmental Management'. This course also accrues Continuing Professional Development points.

This course carries 15 CPD points for the BASIS Professional Register.

Other advanced BASIS crop modules

• Plant Protection Award
• Soil and Water Management
• Biodiversity and Environmental Training for Advisers