Direct applications are driving increased nutrient use efficiency

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...

What is leaf tissue analysis and why is it useful in potato crops?

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...

Withstanding the effects of heat and drought stress naturally

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...

Emerald Research Ltd Leaving less of a footprint at Potato Days UK Event

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...

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...