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Scorched by foliar in the past… reasons to try again
The concept of foliar applied preparations is based on science, but when they were initially introduced in the late 1990’s many of the initial products had drawbacks, such as leaf scorch, low active volumes per application, poor uptake and even phtyotoxicity . All of...
The margin game – when lots of little things add up to make a big difference.
When uncertainty about weather patterns, inputs costs and sales prices are the only certainty in the coming season, farmers and growers can reap dividends by utilising a full nutritional programme specifically designed to maximise quality and yield attributes required...
Soil health: Thriving over surviving
Soil health is a phrase that has been climbing up the agricultural, sustainability and political agendas in recent years and is fast becoming quite a meme. As with many clichés, it can mean many things to many different parties, but what should it mean to farmers and...
What are the benefits of foliar nitrogen application?
The use of foliar nitrogen applications offers farmers and growers a host of benefits ranging from an overall reduction in the amount of nitrogen applied through to increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and reductions in environmental losses, which can result...
Emerald Research finds new pastures at Hartpury Agri- Tech Centre
As of Thursday 1st February 2024, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) has moved in to their new head office, based at the University of Hartpury’s Agri-Tech Centre, a progressive facilitator within the field of applied agricultural innovation. ERL’s CEO, Simon Fox, has chosen...
Promising field trial results for potatoes with reduced inputs
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) released the first season’s trial results from the Innovate UK funded Transformative Reduced Input in Potatoes (TRIP) project. Emerald Research is running farm field strip trials, commercial field-scale trials and replicated pot trials for...
NASPA – Use of microbials in Potatoes
MAINCROP POTATOES – POT TRIALS Microbials significantly outperformed Standard Fungicide Consortium-Plus slightly outperformed Consortium-Z Consortium-Plus 353% increase in tuber weight at Tuber Initiation Significant increase in rooting and tuber set These Pot trials...
NASPA – New biostimulant research
The Interreg NASPA project covers 5 European countries comprising 12 partners from SMEs, university laboratories, research centres, major farming companies and food retailers. We have combined our competences in discovering and developing new biomolecules from biomass...
Innovate UK POSTCOVA
Funded through Innovate UK, POSTCOVA was a 12-month research programme running through to Autumn 2021. POSTCOVA tackled major reductions in use of Nitrogen fertiliser – besides bovine methane emissions the largest source of CO2 equivalent emissions in agriculture...
Encouraging healthy rooting in Potatoes
In this era of drone and precision technologies one of the most important inspection tools in the armoury is still the humble spade! When was the last time you dug down to see the result of your cultivations or, more importantly, before you culti- vated? So when is it...