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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...
OptiYield® Olive Trials (Portugal)
Throughout the trial the olive grove was in good health at the time of harvest the overall yield has been above average. Some small loss of olives can be discounted due to low level of Prays oleae (OliveMoth). From the results of the trials, we are able to draw the...
OptiYield® Carrot Trials
A comparison between OptiYield treated and Farm Standard portions of a maturing crop of carrots(var. Nairobi) conducted on 28th September 2016. A 1 m2 sample of each was lifted from adjacent treated/untreated beds in an otherwise uniformlytreated crop and soil....
National Root Crop Growers & Packers
One of the biggest issues facing carrot growers is waste, and with the United Nations predicting that farmers need to increase food production by 70% to meet the global demand, increasing marketable yield is ever more important. This is why Emerald Research (ERL),...
Chip and Crisping Potato Trials – Brickyard Farm
Andrew Wilson of C.J. Wilson & Son is the fourth generation to farm on the Castle Howard Estate, about 14 miles North East of York. Their operation has grown steadily and now grows around 250 acres of potatoes, supplying chip and crisp factories in roughly equal...
Maincrop Potato Trials – Cresswell Barn Farm
As part of the NASPA and PostCova projects, field strip trials were carried out at Cresswell Barn Farm, by kind permission of the Elliott family. They grow around 170ha of potatoes on the silt clay loams, next to the Cleddau estuary in Pembrokeshire. The strip trial...
Maincrop Potato Trial – OptiYield® System
A comparison between OptiYield treated and Farm Standard portions of maincrop processing potatoes (var. Royal) conducted on 19th October 2018 at GooderWestwood. (Grid Ref.: 54.146921, -0.747831). By kind permission of the Wilson Family of CJ Wilson & Sons. The...