by helen.holman | Dec 11, 2024 | OptiYield
The banking metaphor of using your soil as a long-term nutrient bank, allowing you to store crop nutrients away for future use, should be resigned to the annals of history. In our view, and especially with phosphate, it is only a bank in the respect of locking up...
by helen.holman | Nov 14, 2024 | News, OptiYield
Let’s start with an analogy – Q: How much diesel is left in the tank MIKE? 👩🌾 MIKE: The measuring stick measured two metres deep📏 Q: Well how wide or long is the tank? 🤷♂️ MIKE: I can’t tell you that, but we have two metres of diesel … 🤦...
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 | Apr 17, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield
Soil health is a phrase that has been climbing up the agricultural, sustainability and political agendas in recent years and is fast becoming quite a meme. As with many clichés, it can mean many things to many different parties, but what should it mean to farmers and...
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...
