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...

What are the benefits of foliar nitrogen application? 

by helen.holman | Mar 7, 2024 | Emerald Research, OptiYield

  The use of foliar nitrogen applications offers farmers and growers a host of benefits ranging from an overall reduction in the amount of nitrogen applied through to increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and reductions in environmental losses, which can result...

Promising field trial results for potatoes with reduced inputs

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...

Boosting crop performance, sustainability and soil health with OptiYield Core

by Simon Fox | Apr 3, 2022 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield

With more than a decade of research and development in soil science, crop nutrition needs and uptake, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) is putting its knowledge into helping potato and vegetable farmers balance sustainability with the increased yield and profitable crop...

The first foundation of OptiYield® CHIPS (Crop Health Improved Performance System)

by Simon Fox | Dec 14, 2021 | Emerald Research, News, OptiYield

From 2015 International Year of Soils through to COP26 it has never been clearer that no environmental system works in isolation and to effect any positive and meaningful change, the complex relationships and interdependencies need to be understood. The risk of not...