Hayden is the Senior Horticultural Technician in Hawkes' Bay.  Services provided by the Technical team include:

       
• Irrigation monitoring and calibration
       
• Sprayer calibration and training
       
• Independent kiwifruit and apple maturity analysis
       
• Agrichemical trial assessments - trial design and setup, application and data collection
       
• Fruit damage assessments
       
• Pest and disease monitoring
       
• Collecting on-orchard information to help monitor industry trends
       
• Optimising the yield/size combinations of fruit through:
       
• Young tree trunk cross sectional area measurement
       
• Winter bud count
       
• Tree row volume measurement
       
• Fruit size monitoring