Called Tuberzone, this new-to-the-market innovation cleverly tracks and predicts crop yield and tuber size throughout the season helping growers to calculate the optimum time for desiccation, and thus maximising the peak value of seed and salad crops. SoilEssentials has designed Tuberzone to monitor and predict in-field variations in yield and…

Mid October and it is time to put a crop of winter wheat behind potatoes at Kinblethmont. The field in question was only about 50% potatoes, due to a build up over the years of Pallida PCN (Potato Cyst Nematodes). These can be very long lived and so, the parts…

Your will have heard me talking about or read my blogs wittering on about the importance of natural capital as the key opportunity to tackle climate change. There have been a few voices trying to raise this to the top of the agenda over the last few years. I was…