Fast Membership Schemes

We recognize 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
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