Agronomy and crop production firm ProCam has announced the appointment of three new members of staff to its agronomy and research teams.
Eilish Johnston and Stephen Acott will join the company’s Scottish team as trainee agronomists, while James Bromwich will join as the company’s new trials assistant.
ProCam’s UK managing director, Diane Heath, said the company was extremely pleased to welcome the new recruits.
“They join us at a challenging but exciting time for food production in the UK and I’m sure they’ll all prove to be invaluable by offering farmer-focussed, practical crop protection and nutrition advice and solutions to safeguard and enhance the margins of the farms they work with,” she said.
James Bromwich
Bromwich, who grew up on his family’s farm in Leicestershire, studied business management in De Montfort University and joined the MDS graduate scheme where he completed placements within companies in the food and fresh produce sector.
ProCam said Bromwich will work alongside trials officer Rebecca Tunnicliffe in his new role.
In his new role as trials assistant, he will work to assist in coordinating the company’s in-house research and knowledge exchange, ProCam said, to enable growers and agronomists to make better decisions to improve cropping performance.
Stephen Acott
Acott has joined the company as a trainee agronomist based at its Cuminestiwn depot in Aberdeenshire.
Acott relocated to Scotland with his wife in 2004 and joined Agrii in 2008, where he spent 12 years running the company’s Turriff-based seed analysis laboratory and worked as a cereal crop inspector throughout Scotland.
He will work under the Robertson Crop Services team and provide practical agronomic advice to growers in Aberdeenshire.
Eilish Johnston
Johnston also joins ProCam as a trainee agronomist and will be based at the company’s Kildary office in Easter Ross.
Johnston grew up in Edinburgh and has experience in various roles in the sheep and dairy sectors as well as experience as a lambing assistant for the Ashcraig Farming Partnership in Selkirk and as a dairyman for R&A Wilson in Berwickshire.
Johnston studied agriculture at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and went on to join Agrii, where she gained a BASIS foundation qualification.
