Summit Ag has over 40 years experience in agronomic services. We offer a independent agronomy service and provide local knowledge and advice that gets results.
Farm Management Plans
All farms need a management plan.
Investment decisions are high value and they need to make sure they have a positive fit in a production system. Typically the farm management plan is focusing on the medium to long term objectives of the enterprise and may include strategies such as infrastructure to reduce production risk, automation, change of irrigation layout or a new development, long term cropping rotations to manage disease and weed resistance.
Gross Margins
Manage risk and maximise profit.
Comprehensive gross margins on all summer and winter irrigated and dryland crops give our clients a better understanding of the main drivers between cropping enterprises enabling us to manage risk and maximise net profit per hectare as well as return per mega-litre.
Crop Health
Healthy crops produce better yields.
By managing nutrition, disease and competition it enables the crop to have resilience to unforeseen or uncontrollable stress events.
Irrigation Scheduling
Many factors need to be considered when timing an irrigation.
Understanding the soil type, EM data slevation rooting depth, crop stage, forecast temperatures, evapotranspiration and interpretation of soil moisture probes ensure that irrigations are targeted for yield and water use efficiency.
Soil Testing and Analysis
Your soils chemical and physical properties are major production drivers in the cropping system.
It is essential to have a base line of nutrition and structure to manage every soil type to its potential and improve it overtime. Summit Ag understands the soil constraints through the local area and have management practices in place to maximise your return via profiled soil testing, soil pits and analysis.
Insect Management
Insect management needs to be dynamic to suit the season and the crop economics for that season.
We focus on implementing insecticide management resistance strategies including control methods that go beyond what comes in a drum.
