Hi,Can anyone help,I am soon to take the basis crop protection course and must do a 3000 word project.Has anyone done this course that can advise me on a project topic.My first choice was a two field comparison with the final yields as the ending result.It seems that this is not acceptable and my tutors advice was very vague.cheers.

My BASIS course project was on blackgrass control with spring applied Atlantis using 2 types of nozzle - Amistar air induction and Hawk angled flat fans. I measured the difference in control by marking out plots & swapping some of the nozzles on the spray boom. That seemed to be ok.

When does your course start & end? Any kind of trial would need to be set up and the results analysed before the project completion date.

What do you do for a day job?

Have a look on the BASIS website - there is a course syllabus that will have details of what is required for the project.

 I did Potato herbicides post Paraquat. I was fortunate in that I was working for a big spud grower at the time who was happy to use a variety of herbicide programs and see which was the most effective.

I think you have to have a variable that YOU can control like nozzles or herbicides or fungicides. It helps if you can get friendly with a few local growers so you can have a broad spectrum of results perhaps as well.

 Where are you doing your course? I did mine at Harper and they were very helpful but I know from others experiences that some of the course tutors can be quite inexperienced at teaching the course and, as you say, quite vague.

 

Thanks for the reply,i am doing the course at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh.I have until late january to complete the project and cannot take the exam until the project is completed.I had collected data intending to compare two fields,one of which was treated with pre-emergance (Liberator) and compare the final yields but my tutor did not like the idea.So here i am with no data and time against me.

 Not allot of time. Stitched up springs to mind! I'm guessing there are still some who haven't drilled yet? There certainly are down here. Find someone with a field of wheat or barley about to go in and see if he will be happy to use a couple of different herbicides on it. Failing that SAC should have the facilities for you to shadow or help with a herbicide trial on site I would have thought?