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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...
OptiYield – Independent Replicated Field & Plot Carrot Trials
Independent replicated field trials were carried out by Huntapac Produce Ltd. on maincrop carrots, it measured the effect of OptiYield foliar nutrients & biostimulants as recommend by the OptiYield System on crop growth, quality and marektable yields. The...
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...