by helen.holman | Oct 13, 2025 | News, OptiYield
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...
by helen.holman | Sep 16, 2025 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield, Uncategorized
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...
by helen.holman | Jun 4, 2025 | News, TRIP
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...
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 | Jul 8, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
Heat and drought along with other abiotic stresses can take their toll on crops in many ways: A lack of water disturbs the uptake of fluid through the roots which in turn stops the delivery of vital nutrients and other important molecules to the cells. Water stressed...
