Pea and bean growers will benefit from a range of dedicated features
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has launched a new app focused on crop care for UK peas and beans.
Launched at CropTec, growers can use the free app to diagnose pest and disease issues, evaluate a crop’s growth stage, calculate a seed rate or file a report direct to the PGRO laboratory.
Advice and information contained within the service covers all the main pulse crops grown in the UK, and also vining peas and the less-popular pulse crops of lupins and chickpeas.
PGRO said it has been designed to be the first port of call for growers and agronomists, providing them with intuitive new features, including the ability to create a crop report that is sent direct to PGRO’s experts who will quickly get back to the user with the best support and advice.
With a user-friendly design, farmers will have access to a plethora of information, images, and guides.
“We’ve designed the app to be simple to use but with a huge amount of practical information that delivers real value to growers and agronomists,” said Roger Vickers, PGRO’s CEO.
“Detail can be accessed extremely quickly in the field so as soon as something is spotted it can be self-diagnosed using, for example, the images and symptoms we have published in the app. The feature allowing users to create a report will act as a quick observation from field to lab in seconds.
“The PGRO has been established for 80 years and has an unrivalled amount of information from pulse crop research. With this app we are sharing our knowledge of how to grow the best crops possible in a format that we know growers will value.”
The PGRO app is available to download on the App Store and Google Play store.
