OPTIYIELD®
OptiYield® is the complete soil health and crop performance system that harnesses digital agronomic tools to deliver advanced proprietary crop input programmes for agronomists and farmers.
Based on forty-five years’ experience and fifteen years of product research and development, testing and on-farm usage, OptiYield is the farmer-facing realisation of Emerald Research’s system and product development programme. For the first time, this provides farms with a full lifecycle crop nutrient management and optimisation plan, based on soil and crop science.
OptiYield’s philosophy is built on a universal approach to the entire cropping system and full cropping cycle, aiming not only to improve crop performance dramatically, but also improve sustainability, reduce fertiliser use and pollution as well as increasing water use efficiency.
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10-25% Marketable yield increase per year
Delivering improved financial & environmental performance
Why use OptiYield®?
More reasons to use OptiYield® ….
Reduce N & P use by 50% or more
The first application is at planting; nitrate and other nutrients are placed directly with the tuber or seed, available for use by initial radicles.
A second pocket of “starter” fertiliser is within the exploration area (10-15%) of the lateral roots as they develop.
Subsequently, novel foliar nitrogen formulations are applied, matching demand, increasing uptake and dramatically reducing the wastage through leaching, denitrification, volatilisation and immobilisation.
Other crops can benefit from a similar protocol – for the OptiYield Core- Optimised Growth Development Programmes.
Improve yields by 10-25%
Over the past 5 years, our growers have been using our OptiYield® system with considerable success in crops that include potatoes, carrots, beetroot, parsnips, onions, leeks and brassicas for which we have seen consistent increases in marketable yields from 10 – 25 % as an average, providing substantial net profit increases for the majority of our clients.
Improve crop resilience and reliability
Crop resilience is increased through:
- Reduced Crop Stress
- Improved Vigour
- Better Rooting
- Less Disease
- Quicker Germination
Improve soil health and crop quality
OptiYield®in soil analysis and the development of a tailored nutrient management programme by crop variety. By not taking a dated ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, it utilises a series of algorithms that has been developed from 15 years’ extensive research and development in soil and plant nutrient utilisation.
Improvements in soil health can be measured through improved:
- Carbon Sequestered
- Microbial Diversity
- Earthworms
- Soil Structure
- Stability
- Reduced Erosion
Minimise field losses or crop rejection
Increased crop quality and marketable yields are demonstrated through:
- Higher BRIX
- Higher Protein
- Better Flowering
- More Even Crops
Thereby decreasing losses from the field or through quality rejections.
We can help you achieve this with our Optimised Growth Development programmes. Click here to learn more.
OptiYield® product range
Foliar Nutrients
Foliar fertilisers are designed to be applied directly to the leaves of a plant. Plants are able to absorb essential elements through their leaves.
OptiYield Macronutrients and Micronutrients are developed to complement and, in many cases, replace soil-applied fertilisers.
Due to the significant increase in efficiency and efficacy of OptiYield products, farmers can dramatically reduce the amount of overall fertiliser inputs they use. This meets one of the FAO objectives to reduce the overall environmental impact and carbon footprint of fertilisers.
OptiYield products are available in liquid and powder form and their unique formulations are designed to provide optimal penetration and mobility of the nutrients within the plant and can be tank-mixed together with other OptiYield foliar nutrients and biostimulants as well as third-party crop protection products.
Biostimulants
OptiYield 3rd Generation designer biostimulants are developed from research and investigation of 1000's of natural materials using fundamentals of biochemistry
Biostimulants are defined as:
“A non-fertiliser material containing substance(s) and/or microorganisms applied to plants or the rhizosphere whose function is to stimulate and benefit natural plant development processes embracing nutrient uptake, nutrient efficiency, crop quality, crop vigour, resistance to or tolerance of external environmental stresses.”
OptiYield 3rd Generation designer biostimulants are developed from research and investigation of 1000’s of natural materials using fundamentals of biochemistry including researching/measuring gene regulation and expression technology, and based on funded research with lab assays, pot and independent replicated field trials.
We are now turning our attention to the next generation of biostimulants and integrating these with foliar nutrients and microbial applications through the lens of the OptiYield system.
Microbial Biostimulants
Soil health is impaired both by poor cultivation/rotation practices and overuse of input factors such as fertilisers, fungicides, nematicides and insecticides.
Long-term use of some soil-applied broad-spectrum fungicides and pesticides can put continued pressure on soil biology, reducing the population and biodiversity of the wider beneficial microbial community.
Research into reversing this trend has shown benefits in promoting crop/microbe associations through inoculating soils with beneficial micro-organisms, developing crop varieties that better associate with soil micro-organisms and investigating optimal soil management regimes (e.g. crop rotations, inter-cropping and reduced-tillage) that promote beneficial microbial biodiversity.
OptiYield microbial formulations have proven themselves to be exceptionally effective, especially when used as part of an overall OptiYield programme.
