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  1. TDR100 used on Cocoa Farms

    Laurent Souron is a Research Analyst forecasting supply and demand for the cocoa and coffee markets. He needed “objective, comparable soil moisture measurements to better assess crop potential over time” and purchased a FieldScout TDR100 soil moisture meter after locating EnviroMonitors online.

    The TDR100 is used for crop surveys in West Africa and South America. According to Laurent “having objective rather than subjective measurements is a plus when presenting results to outsiders”. He is also finding that “the TDR100 has become a key part of our forecasting operations, it is sturdy and simple to use”.

    “We are more than happy with our TDR meter”, he said, and he has already recommended the FieldScout TDR100 to another company to help with their forecasting operations.

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  2. Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station at Court Garden Vineyard

    Howard Corney is the owner of Court Gardens, a 12 acre vineyard located in Ditchling, East Sussex. Howard started his working life as an architect before he and his wife, who worked as a designer, decided to embark on a new career together as sheep farmers. Sixteen years ago they decided to move to their current location in Ditchling and have since planted a vineyard.

    Court Garden Vineyard was planted back in 2005 and has been producing and selling English sparkling wine from the farm and local shops since November 2009. The site which is known to have existed as a farm since Saxon times is surrounded by grazing fields with residential Ditchling to the South Side.

    Howard purchased a Davis Vantage Pro 2 from EnviroMonitors for use specifically on his vineyard. His main factors in buying

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  3. Vantage Pro2 Weather station in use at Poultry Farm

    J Warner & Son is a family run farming business based in central Shropshire spread over 1500 acres comprising of several different operations including arable, poultry farming and other livestock. The farm has been in operation for three generations growing small quantities of beet and maize for local livestock farmers with their main crops consisting of wheat, oilseed rape and potatoes.

    Edward Warner came to EnviroMonitors to purchase a Vantage Pro2 Weather Station, “We decided we would benefit from a weather station to efficiently record weather patterns”. Edward also knew the weather station information could benefit decision making when applying chemicals to crops. In addition, the Vantage Pro2 Weather Station offers the farm the option to add further sensors to monitor leaf wetness and soil moisture.

    J Warner & Son is a family run farming business

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  4. Letham Shank Farm use Davis Vantage Pro2

    John Cranston is the current tenant at Letham Shank Farm. Although from a farming background John was advised to ‘see the world’ and so went to sea, which is where his interest in weather began, and became Master Mariner with Shell. In 1987 the farm adjacent to his father's came up for let and John left the sea once he secured the tenancy. Letham Shank is a small mixed ‘family’ farm of 160ha located two miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed and celebrates its 90th year in 2013. The farm grows grass, OSR, winter & spring barley, wheat and occasionally potatoes with contracting on another 100ha of similar cropping. It is 54m above sea level surrounded by open views with a large number of hedges, woods and relatively small fields.

    At Cereals 2012 John discussed Davis Weather Stations with EnviroMonitors. He owned an ageing cabled Instromet Weather System but needed to replace it. “After helping several people to set up budget weather stations, I decided that the Davis was the most cost

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  5. Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station used at Arable Farm

    Simon Collins is the Senior Partner at MJ & SC Collins, a family business started by his parents in 1961. The farm is spread over 5 sites covering just over 3000 acres on the Hertfordshire / Essex border. Crops include wheat, OSR and field beans. The locations are up to 12 miles apart, with a multi-site visit taking over an hour to visit Sawbridgeworth, Matching Green, and Harlow.

    Although the sites are in relatively close distance, Simon advises that there are very localised weather conditions which affect operations. The team already know that it can be raining at one site, but not at others. Simon is conscious that their equipment could be better used at a site where it is not raining for spraying or harvesting, but to drive there to find out the weather conditions takes an hour of time, increasing diesel costs, and with farm equipment and staff standing waiting. Time is at a massive premium in summer, and there is pressure on the combine to get grain into stores whilst it

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  6. Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station at Yattendon Estate

    Peter King is the Arable Farm Manager at Yattendon Estate in Berkshire. The estate has practiced “responsible English farming at Yattendon since 1925”. Yattendon Estate is the amalgamation of several smaller estates acquired by the first Lord Lliffe which represents a total of nearly 4000 hectares divided between in-hand farms, let farms, woodlands, christmas tree areas, let smallholdings and grazing land. Crops grown on the land include Wheat, Barley, Oil Seed Rape and Forage Maize Amongst the several farms on the estate is Frilsham Home Farm which is home to 550 Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle and 24 British White cattle.

    Prior to purchasing their Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station from EnviroMonitors the estate had been keeping rainfall records for the Met Office since 1942. Peter had wanted a weather station for a number of years, seeing the value a robust and accurate

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  7. "Vantage Vue is a great acquisition for the farm"

    Bill Dodd is an arable farmer based in the North East growing wheat, barley and OSR. His family have been tenant farmers on the Duke of Northumberland's land since 1890. The 260ha farm is located near to Warkworth in the Northumberland Coastal Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Part of the land on the farm is classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is in the higher level scheme by DEFRA to improve the environment.

    EnviroMonitors take part and attend agricultural and industry events throughout the year. Bill came to purchase a weather station from EnviroMonitors after meeting the team at Cereals 2012. He had previously used a basic hobbyist weather station but wanted to invest in a station that would have more longevity.

    The Davis Vantage Vue Weather Station with WeatherLink USB was the station of choice for

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  8. TDR300 Used by Chris Haspell at Castle Stuart Golf Club

    Chris Haspell, Course Manager at Castle Stuart Golf Club, first saw the FieldScout TDR300 Soil Moisture Meter at the American Superintendents Golf Show. Castle Stuart is a links course on a pure sand base which opened in 2009. Located in Inverness in the Highlands the course has a picture perfect setting in winter and in a normal year there is limited rainfall.

    Chris wanted to invest in the TDR300 for “water conservation and the need to keep the sands at Castle Stuart from drying down completely”. The meter was purchased in April 2011 from EnviroMonitors. Since his purchase Chris has been “using the meter nearly every time I go out

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  9. TDR300 Used by Chris Haspell at Castle Stuart Golf Club

    Chris Haspell, Course Manager at Castle Stuart Golf Club, first saw the FieldScout TDR300 Soil Moisture Meter at the American Superintendents Golf Show. Castle Stuart is a links course on a pure sand base which opened in 2009. Located in Inverness in the Highlands the course has a picture perfect setting in winter and in a normal year there is limited rainfall.

    Chris wanted to invest in the TDR300 for “water conservation and the need to keep the sands at Castle Stuart from drying down completely”. The meter was purchased in April 2011 from EnviroMonitors. Since his purchase Chris has been “using the meter nearly every time I go out

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  10. Glenn Kirby's experience of the FieldScout TDR100 Soil Moisture Meter

    Glenn Kirby used the FieldScout TDR100 Soil Moisture Meter in his previous role as Assistant Courses Manager at The London Golf Club. Glenn comments that the two TDR100s were “originally purchased to help be more efficient in our watering practices but found that moisture content was very indicative of organic matter content and believe long term it would help us evaluate and manage how we deal with Organic Matter build up”.

    From a young age Glenn has been involved in sportsturf starting in Cricket pitch maintenance and with education and time has evolved to Golf Course maintenance. Golf seemed to offer much more job variety and career progression and in November 2012 Glenn started the position of Course Manager at Hockley Golf Club in Hampshire on the outskirts of Winchester. Hockley has ambitious plans to develop the course to fulfil its full potential and aspires to be considered amongst the very

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