by helen.holman | Mar 27, 2025 | Emerald Research, News
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) and a leading potato grower in South West England have won an eighteen-month Innovate UK project to tackle the ever-growing problem of wireworm damage in potatoes. The £56,000 project will evaluate several soil improvers, rich in prebiotic...
by helen.holman | Feb 24, 2025 | News, OptiYield
The role of microbes in a soil’s ecosystem is well established, along with a clear understanding of their beneficial role in enhancing crop production. Recent years have seen microbial colonies come under repeated stress with prolonged episodes of waterlogging, which...
by helen.holman | Feb 24, 2025 | Biopesticides, Emerald Research, News
The ‘Emergency Authorisation’ process on pesticides is often misunderstood. Inherited from the EU, it was designed to allow regulators to adopt the precautionary principle but to have the option of allowing controlled and judicious use only when essential. It was...
by helen.holman | Jan 14, 2025 | News
January is typically a time of renewed optimism and hope for the coming year but it is becoming increasingly hard to ‘keep the faith’ as Bon Jovi would say, in the light of data that (unsurprisingly) shows that 2024 was the UK’s third worst harvest in the last 40...
by helen.holman | Nov 14, 2024 | News, OptiYield
Let’s start with an analogy – Q: How much diesel is left in the tank MIKE? 👩🌾 MIKE: The measuring stick measured two metres deep📏 Q: Well how wide or long is the tank? 🤷♂️ MIKE: I can’t tell you that, but we have two metres of diesel … 🤦...
by helen.holman | Oct 23, 2024 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) will be exhibiting at CropTec 24 taking place on the 27th and 28th November at the NAEC, Stoneleigh. Taking centre stage will be this season’s results from the Innovate UK-funded Transformative Reduced Inputs in Potatoes (TRIP) project,...
