Managing Heat and Drought Stress in Potato Crops Naturally

by helen.holman | May 12, 2025 | OptiYield

Managing Heat and Drought Stress in Potato Crops Naturally   Spring 2025: low rainfall and rising crop stress risk Spring 2025 has been a direct contrast to spring 2024, with unseasonably low rainfall throughout February, March and April. According to the BBC...

Effective nitrogen application come what May, June & July..

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...

Scorched by foliar in the past… reasons to try again

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...

What are the benefits of foliar nitrogen application? 

by helen.holman | Mar 7, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield

  The use of foliar nitrogen applications offers farmers and growers a host of benefits ranging from an overall reduction in the amount of nitrogen applied through to increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and reductions in environmental losses, which can result...

OptiYield soil analysis – the starting point for winter crop resilience.

by Simon Fox | Sep 12, 2023 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield, Technical Update

The OptiYield expert software system seamlessly integrates with your autumn establishment routine, providing extensive soil analysis information and delivering specific macro/micro nutrient recommendations at each growth stage from establishment and throughout the...