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 | Jun 20, 2024 | Emerald Research, TRIP
Emerald Research Limited (ERL) will be exhibiting at the Potato Days UK event, which is being held on the 4th and 5th September by kind permission of Dyson Farming at Nocton, Lincolnshire. The event will be the largest potato sector event being held in the UK this...
by helen.holman | May 17, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
If you believe in the many and varied weather predictions, such as ‘Thunder on All Fool’s day, it brings good crops of corn and hay’ or ‘Rain on St. Johns Day (June 24th) expect a wet harvest’, there is no way of being able to reliably predict what weather we may get...
