We recognise that every grower has individual requirements to help maximize yields and profit.
We therefore offer two separate Fast Membership Schemes:
- A Basic Membership
- A Bespoke Scheme tailored to suit your needs
The Basic Membership:
On Farm Visits
- Full access to Basis qualified specialist fruit agronomists supplying independent and practical advice
- Continuity of advice by telephone and email
Independent Crop Protection Advice
- Regular, crop specific newsletters (fortnightly in winter) providing practical timely advice, reminders and relevant industry news.
- Annual technical manuals and subsequent updates
- Access to a national network of weather stations for scab, codling, nectria and mildew models via Members-Only website services
- Latest pesticide information
Benefits from Fast’s own trials site
- Evaluation of new products and varieties
- Trialling new growing systems
- Up to date trials on new products such as PreTect
Crop Management
- Site selection
- Growing systems
- Orchard design
- Planting & crop establishment
- Tree management
- Crop management
- Crop protection
- Crop nutrition
- Cash flows
- Organics
Crop Nutrition
Tree Fruits
- Nutrient programme
- Regular foliar feed programme
Soft Fruits
- Precision feeding
- Irrigation monitoring
Laboratory Services
- Fruit Analysis
- Soil Sampling undertaken every 3 years with full recommendations
- Leaf Analysis
Invitation to Members-Only conference and events
Access to members area of website
Bespoke Membership Package:
In addition to the Basic Membership a grower can select any of the following:
Crop Monitoring
From March to October this service covers pest and disease monitoring, nutrition and husbandry advice
On Farm Visits
An additional programme of on farm visits to suit growers’ requirements
Laboratory services
Targeting any specific problems, extra services include water, sap or substrate analysis
FastPro
A twice weekly bulletin covering Scab, Codling Moth, Mildew, Fireblight and Nectria outbreaks