Microbial potato product rebranded following improvements

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Launch follows year-on-year evolution and trials, says manufacturer of soil improver for use in potato growing.

AFTER three years of trials, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) is relaunching its microbial soil improver Consortium-Plus as Symposium, a complementary mixture of many synergistic beneficial microbes and organic biostimulants. 

The decision has been taken following significant year-on-year improvements to the original product first created in 2016. The company says the rebrand will prevent confusion with other microbial mixes with similar product names.

Managing Director of ERL, Simon Fox, said: “Following years of successful trial results in the Transformative Reduced Input Potatoes (TRIP) and other research projects, the microbial make-up of our product has constantly evolved and proven itself to be instrumental in delivering increasingly positive results. We have taken the decision to rename it Symposium to reflect its collective strength and that it is a fundamentally different product than it was six or even three years ago.”

The full results of the TRIP trials in which Symposium has been an essential element, will be available on the Emerald Research and TRIP project stand at the British Potato Event on November 19th and 20th in Harrogate, along with the results from other TRIP partners.

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