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...
by Simon Fox | Oct 14, 2022 | News, OptiYield
There has been no shortage of news articles lately covering the ‘perfect storm’ that rising fuel and nitrogen prices will have on UK agriculture and the wider economy, with fertiliser prices high, (at the time of writing nearly £1000/t for Ammonium Nitrate) and much...
by Simon Fox | Apr 13, 2022 | News, OptiYield
Cooking oil is in short supply due in part to the war in Ukraine, as they and Russia account for 60% of the world’s sunflower oil. Together with Canada’s disastrous 2021 rape seed harvest, the global vegetable oil ‘stock-to-use’ ratio falling to 44 days. While its too...
by Simon Fox | Mar 4, 2022 | News, OptiYield
With the need to maximise the efficient use of inputs, not just from a financial perspective but from today’s drive for sustainable agriculture, recent developments in foliar feeding product formulations now make them a viable alternative to the traditional broadcast...
