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...
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...
by admin | Nov 6, 2023 | Emerald Research, POSTCOVA
Funded through Innovate UK, POSTCOVA was a 12-month research programme running through to Autumn 2021. POSTCOVA tackled major reductions in use of Nitrogen fertiliser – besides bovine methane emissions the largest source of CO2 equivalent emissions in agriculture...
by Simon Fox | Mar 26, 2023 | News, OptiYield
It’s not often that UK farmers follow their European counterparts, but are they likely to go for winter oilseeds and cereals over potatoes for the 2023 harvest? During 2022 season the Europe potato hectarage of 102.5 million tonnes (while still being the second...