by helen.holman | Feb 1, 2024 | News, Trial Reports, TRIP
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) released the first season’s trial results from the Innovate UK funded Transformative Reduced Input in Potatoes (TRIP) project. Emerald Research is running farm field strip trials, commercial field-scale trials and replicated pot trials for...
by helen.holman | Nov 8, 2023 | Trial Reports
Brickyard Farm - North East Yorkshire Andrew Wilson of C.J. Wilson & Son is the fourth generation to farm on the Castle Howard Estate, about 14 miles North East of York. Their operation has grown steadily and now grows around 250 acres of potatoes, supplying chip...
by admin | Nov 7, 2023 | OptiYield-Projects
As part of the NASPA and PostCova projects, field strip trials were carried out at Cresswell Barn Farm, by kind permission of the Elliott family. They grow around 170ha of potatoes on the silt clay loams, next to the Cleddau estuary in Pembrokeshire. The strip trial...
by admin | Nov 7, 2023 | OptiYield-Projects, Trial Reports
A comparison between OptiYield treated and Farm Standard portions of maincrop processing potatoes (var. Royal) conducted on 19th October 2018 at GooderWestwood. (Grid Ref.: 54.146921, -0.747831). By kind permission of the Wilson Family of CJ Wilson & Sons. The...
by Simon Fox | Oct 8, 2023 | News, OptiYield, TRIP
In this era of drone and precision technologies one of the most important inspection tools in the armoury is still the humble spade! When was the last time you dug down to see the result of your cultivations or, more importantly, before you culti- vated? So when is it...