Dennis Wilson is an English agronomist with over 35 years professional experience in the Berry Fruit Industry. He is the Managing Director of Delphy UK Ltd, a specialist Berry Fruit Advisory company employing 9 Agronomists working across the UK and Ireland. Delphy UK is part of the Delphy group of Advisory companies, based in Holland and working across all sectors of Horticulture. Delphy employs nearly 300 crop specialists across Northern Europe. The Delphy Berry Fruit advisory team consists of over 30 specialists, based in offices across the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Denmark, and Poland. The son of a Strawberry grower, Dennis studied Horticulture at Reading University, both to 1st degree and to Masters Level. On leaving University, he worked as a Berry Farm Manager and also as a Researcher before becoming a specialist Berry Fruit Agronomist in 1994. Initially working as an independent consultant, he established Soft Fruit Solutions in 1999 with 2 other Independent Agronomists. Together with DLV Plant BV, they formed a joint venture to become DLV Plant (now Delphy) UK Ltd in 2008. Dennis currently advises a select number of UK/Irish Berry growers and nurserymen, and also a small number of supply companies operating in the Berry Fruit Industry. He also works internationally, and in the past 5 years has worked with clients as far afield as, Mexico, USA, Canada, Portugal, Morocco, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Australia. His particular area of expertise is in substrate production of all berry fruits (and in nursery production of Strawberry and Rubus). He also has a strong interest in berry plant nutrition and physiology, focussing on how to optimise crop growth under changing environmental conditions - in both outdoor and protected plantations.