Yara UK Limited

There are growing market demands for plant-based proteins and crops that add diversity to the crop rotation. This reflects consumer trends towards "sustainable" foods and the need for farmers to increase incomes whilst reducing environmental impacts. In these respects, field beans provide considerable opportunity. They naturally fix nitrogen (N), can be u...

Soil microbiomes drive critical functions in agro-ecosystems, including soil fertility, crop productivity and stress tolerance. Previous work demonstrates that agricultural practices influence the link between soil structure and microbiome functionality. System-level agricultural management practices can induce structural alterations, thereby changing the...

This project addresses the effects of climate change in the UK on blackcurrant production, where the trend towards warmer winters has adversely affected dormancy break and subsequent crop yields and quality, substantially reducing profitability. The use of existing dormancy-breaking treatments, developed for other perennial crops, will be assessed for the...

Grass yields currently achieved on-farm are less than half of the biological potential for the UK environment. One of the main reasons for low grass yields is the sub-optimal use of nitrogen (N) fertiliser and failure to account for spatial variation in N fertiliser demand within fields. Current methods of estimating fertiliser N requirements are complex ...

This proposal aims to increase the supply and sustainability of protein produced for animal feed from oilseed rape-meal by optimising nitrogen (N) fertiliser nutrition for oilseed rape to increase the yield of seed, protein and oil. Objectives include; 1) developing the Yara N Sensor technology to allow foliar N fertiliser to be variably applied to meet d...