Crop Resilience and Potato Soil Analysis: Lessons from Arable Insights Live

by helen.holman | Sep 23, 2026 | Crop Health, OptiYield, Uncategorized

Crop Resilience Starts Before Planting: Reflections from Arable Insights Live On 17 September, Emerald Research joined potato growers, agronomists and industry specialists at Farmers Weekly’s Arable Insights Live: Potatoes, held at the Dyson Research Centre in...

Potato Heat Stress: Keeping Crops Working Through Summer

by helen.holman | Aug 4, 2026 | Crop Health, OptiYield

Photographs taken on 22 July show potato crops managed under the OptiYield® programme retaining substantial green canopy following an exceptionally demanding period of summer weather. The four OptiYield fields A B C and D – are all in the same locality. Although...

Potato Petiole Analysis: Staying on Track from Emergence and Beyond

by helen.holman | Jun 2, 2026 | Crop Health, Nutrient Testing, OptiYield

Potato Petiole Analysis: Staying on Track from Emergence and Beyond After the initial sigh of relief that tubers are in the ground and emerged, comes the concern to keep them on track to meet your tonnage and quality commitments at the end of the season – which may be...

How Seaweed Extracts Help Potatoes Cope with Water Stress

by helen.holman | May 26, 2026 | OptiYield

Foliar support when irrigation is limited With limited or no irrigation overcoming the effects of prolonged dry periods comes down to biostimulant and nutritional support – delivered through foliar application. Why Seaweed Extracts Are Used in Crop Stress...

Heading into May and should we be talking about water stress?

by helen.holman | May 12, 2026 | Crop Health, OptiYield

  Potato Water Stress: Managing Crop Nutrition in Dry Conditions What is the UK water situation going into May 2026? Up until mid-February the UK had a record-breaking run of 40 consecutive days of rain somewhere in the UK, in fact Aberdeenshire had received...