Production systems, designed around the crop

Support across the full production chain, from plant material through to harvested crop. Work typically starts with a specific question — a crop that is not performing as expected, a system that needs to produce differently, or a decision that has to be made before a season starts.

Because the stages are connected, propagation and substrate decisions are treated as part of the production outcome rather than separate topics.

• Cultivation strategy across the production cycle
• Propagation and young plant quality
• Production systems and substrate cultivation
• Crop performance assessment
• Technical problem solving in running crops

The crop comes first. What a crop needs — light, climate, root volume, water, handling — determines the system that should be built around it, and the building follows from that. A greenhouse designed without those requirements settled tends to constrain the crop for its entire working life.

That means working through plant density, row and gutter layout, workflow and supporting infrastructure together, rather than treating the structure as a fixed shell to be filled afterwards.

• Production requirements translated into system design
• Layout, plant density and gutter configuration
• Workflow and labour movement through the crop
• Irrigation and supporting infrastructure
• Coordination with builders, suppliers and installers

Irrigation and nutrition are where production requirements meet what the installed system can actually deliver. Both need to be designed against the crop, the substrate and the water available on site.

• Irrigation system design and capacity
• Nutrient strategy and recipe development
• Water quality and its consequences for the system
• Matching delivery capacity to peak crop demand
• Review of existing irrigation and fertigation setups

Independent technical input on projects at any stage — before commitments are made, during design, or once a system is running and not doing what it should.

• New projects, from concept to specification
• Expansions of existing production sites
• Review of existing designs and proposals
• Technical decisions and supplier comparison
• Troubleshooting production systems already in operation