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...
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...
by helen.holman | Mar 27, 2025 | Emerald Research, News
Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) and a leading potato grower in South West England have won an eighteen-month Innovate UK project to tackle the ever-growing problem of wireworm damage in potatoes. The £56,000 project will evaluate several soil improvers, rich in prebiotic...
by helen.holman | Jul 8, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
Heat and drought along with other abiotic stresses can take their toll on crops in many ways: A lack of water disturbs the uptake of fluid through the roots which in turn stops the delivery of vital nutrients and other important molecules to the cells. Water stressed...
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...
