by helen.holman | May 12, 2025 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
Spring 2025 has been a direct contrast to Spring 2024, with unseasonally low rainfall throughout February, March and April. According to the BBC weather department, Sheffield’s Weston Park weather station has recorded just 78mm (3in) of rain since the start of...
by helen.holman | Apr 7, 2025 | OptiYield
Streamlining work practices and making operations easier to carry out can also bring savings of time, energy and effort. However, changing from what you always do to a new approach can be daunting and it’s easy to see differences as difficulties. At first glance the...
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 | Dec 11, 2024 | OptiYield
The banking metaphor of using your soil as a long-term nutrient bank, allowing you to store crop nutrients away for future use, should be resigned to the annals of history. In our view, and especially with phosphate, it is only a bank in the respect of locking up...
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,...
