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 | 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 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...
by helen.holman | Apr 30, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
When uncertainty about weather patterns, inputs costs and sales prices are the only certainty in the coming season, farmers and growers can reap dividends by utilising a full nutritional programme specifically designed to maximise quality and yield attributes required...