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Showcasing the OptiYield System at British Potato Event 2025
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) is excited to announce that we will be showcasing the complete OptiYield system, along with results from our nutritional trials within the Transformative Reduced Input Potatoes (TRIP) project at the British Potato Event 2025 in Harrogate on...
Microbes for Potato Crops: Stronger Roots & Drought Resilience
Reasons to Use Microbes in Potato Crops Soil microbes play an important role in helping potato crops establish strong roots, access nutrients and cope with stress. In dry seasons, when irrigation is limited and soil moisture is under pressure, a better-developed root...
2025 Potato farm report & analysis
We are trying something new this autumn and you are invited to join us on the 12th November , at 12.30pm for our live on line seminar event. 2025 has been a very challenging year for growing potatoes with extreme drought and heat at times, however our growers have...
How Soil Tests Become a Crop Nutrition Plan with OptiYield
Why Soil Test Results Need Interpretation Soil test results are only useful if they can be turned into clear, practical crop nutrition decisions. A standard soil analysis may provide basic values for nutrients such as phosphate, potassium and magnesium, but those...
Potato Root Development: Why Strong Roots Shape Crop Health
Why Potato Root Development Matters Potato root development is one of the most important foundations of crop health. A strong, active root system helps the crop access water, take up nutrients, anchor itself in the soil and cope with stress during the growing season....
Why Standard Soil Tests Don’t Tell the Full Story for Crop Nutrition
Standard soil tests are a useful starting point, but they do not always explain what nutrients are available to the crop, what may be locked up in the soil, or how nutrient interactions affect uptake. OptiYield gives growers a wider view of soil health, nutrient...
Symposium launched as Emerald Research rebrands Consortium-Plus
After three years of trials, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) is relaunching its microbial soil improver Consortium-Plus as Symposium, a complementary mixture of many synergistic beneficial microbes and organic biostimulants. The decision has been taken following...
BioBoost: Biostimulant for Crop Health, Stress Tolerance & Yield
Crop stress from heat, drought and unpredictable weather As we are increasingly experiencing, with this season’s unpredictable weather patterns crops are under constant pressure from environmental stresses like heat and drought, even if they are irrigated. For...
Cold Pressed Seaweed Extract vs Heat Extracted Seaweed
How seaweed extract is made Seaweed extract is produced by one of two industrial processes, the extract containing all the ‘goodies’ is obtained by either a heat/chemical processing or through cold-pressing. Cold-pressed vs heat extracted seaweed extract The table...
Fancy a TRIP (Transformative Reduced Input Potatoes) to our Cornish nutritional trials?
The Innovate UK funded Transformative Reduced Input Potatoes (TRIP) project is holding a farm walk of this year’s nutritional trial plots on the 26th June by kind permission of Colwith Farm Potatoes, at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. The event kicks off at 12 noon with lunch...