by Simon Fox | Mar 2, 2022 | News, OptiYield
RB209 recommends building soil phosphate banks – does this fit modern farming practice? The importance of phosphorous for plant growth is well-documented and understood; the lack of it at any stage of plant development can leave the plant’s engine room lacking fuel...
by Simon Fox | Dec 14, 2021 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield
From 2015 International Year of Soils through to COP26 it has never been clearer that no environmental system works in isolation and to effect any positive and meaningful change, the complex relationships and interdependencies need to be understood. The risk of not...
by Simon Fox | Sep 25, 2021 | News, OptiYield
Autumn Update With the end of harvest in sight for both cereal and potato growers, autumn is making its presence felt both morning and evening, so our thinking turns inevitably to the coming season; field planning, crops, varieties, fertiliser and so on. This year...
by Simon Fox | Aug 13, 2021 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield
What may surprise many people, is that although we left the EU single market on the 31st December 2021, as part of the withdrawal agreement, we were committed to bring in regulations on the use of biostimulants in the UK; this was to align the UK with the EU under the...
by Simon Fox | Jul 20, 2021 | News, OptiYield
The UK biostimulant industry is facing an extensive review of the regulatory environment relating to the ability of UK farmers to apply them after September 2022. This legislative review (DEFRA, Project 31280 “Creating an Enabling Regulatory Environment for Enhanced...
by Simon Fox | Apr 15, 2021 | News, OptiYield, POSTCOVA
POSTCOVA Project April Update – is it all in vain? Our Winter Wheat trials are coming along nicely with all of our Nitrous Oxide gas detectors in place, ready to detect Green House Gas emissions from our control plots and – hopefully – significantly reduced emissions...
