The Beginning Agri-Tech Services was founded in 1992 by Simon Turner. Having left Shuttleworth College in 1984, Simon spent eight years on a cereal vegetable farm in North Bedfordshire. Through his experiences on vegetable farms where irrigation was being utilised, it became clear quite quickly that a more scientific approach than the “boot” perhaps would be valuable to assist in the scheduling of irrigation. Simon’s thoughts proved to be right, growers in some cases had no idea when it came to irrigating crops. As time progressed having studied thousands of soil moisture readings, it was clear that measuring moisture was but one piece of a complex “jigsaw”. All to often when there was a query surrounding a soil moisture reading, the question always asked was “what was the weather doing then?” Thus weather monitoring was looked into, and having developed initially his own weather monitoring system that proved too expensive economically, sought an alternative system which was comprehensive enough to provide the necessary information. Today the company provides irrigation management advice, supplies irrigation management tools, Precision Farming Services and Weather monitoring Equipment to Agriculture. In addition the Weather Monitoring Equipment has also lead the company to become involved with Industry, Education and Leisure.           Home