by helen.holman | May 28, 2025 | TRIP
One of the aims of the Transformative Reduced Input Potatoes (TRIP) Project is to evaluate ways to minimise the application of soil-applied inputs and in particular nitrogen, phosphate and potassium. The main alternative to traditional methods of applying inputs via...
by helen.holman | May 19, 2025 | News
Leaf tissue analysis is a vital tool for managing the nutritional health of potato crops. While the OptiYield soil analysis system predicts nutrient availability to the crop from the soil, it can’t predict the weather and conditions, so cannot know precisely what the...
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 | 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...
by helen.holman | May 8, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
The concept of foliar applied preparations is based on science, but when they were initially introduced in the late 1990’s many of the initial products had drawbacks, such as leaf scorch, low active volumes per application, poor uptake and even phtyotoxicity . All of...
