Martin Clark Consultants

About Martin Clark Consultants

Martin Clark Consultants provides a range of Computer Services to Agriculture.   Building on his background in mapping from a previous career, Victor Clark has developed a unique service which can help everyone involved in the rural environment.   The service is built around the FarmMap GIS (Geographical Information System) mapping software.  Traditionally, Consultants in Agriculture have used crop recording spreadsheets and databases around which their services are built.   This is the first time that anyone has used mapping as the core program, and then linked the spreadsheets to this visual representation.   As a result, it is not necessary to use a particular recording program.

For those farmers who do not wish, do not have the time, or do not have a suitable computer, we offer a complete data input service.   For Mapping, we plot the field boundaries of course, but also we can calculate cropping boundaries and headlands for Set-aside, Countryside Stewardship, and LERAP Survey requirements.   In addition, we offer to maintain crop records throughout the growing season, and to provide backups to the farmers? own software, or reports in digital or paper form.   In order to reduce costs, we ask the farmers to send us a faxes, or emails, of the completed treatment recommendations, and we extract the relevant information in our office.

We believe that this service will be particularly useful to farmers with limited acreages and to Organic Farmers.

In 2000 we are pleased to be able to offer Millennium Mapping photographic data that can be supplied for display on the client's own computer as well as in scaled pictures.   This is the first affordable aerial photography that can be seen as a seamless mosaic and displayed simultaneously behind OS data, and at such high resolution that it is possible to identify the different features that make up field boundaries, even though they may be only 1 metre apart.