Editor’s View: Agritech Must Become Britain’s Climate Toolkit
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a sector that has spent years discussing climate change in the future tense, this summer has rather firmly, moved the conversation into the present.
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a sector that has spent years discussing climate change in the future tense, this summer has rather firmly, moved the conversation into the present.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over a kilometre below the North Yorkshire moors, in a working polyhalite and salt mine, researchers have just started growing food in what is being
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scientists at the James Hutton Institute are developing stronger, more sustainable soft-fruit varieties designed to help growers withstand climate volatility while meeting exacting consumer and
Reading Time: 2 minutes Moa Technology, an Oxford University spinout, has closed a €25.9 million (£22.2 million) Series C round to accelerate development of next-generation herbicides designed to overcome
Reading Time: 3 minutes High-tech answers to some of farming’s toughest challenges will take centre stage at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show, with the launch of a new hydrogen-powered
Reading Time: 3 minutes Innovation is no longer sitting politely at the edge of the food system. It is moving straight onto the plate. As global resources tighten and
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tesco has called for the wider adoption of low-carbon fertilisers across UK agriculture, warning that promising innovation must move beyond small-scale trials if British farmers
Reading Time: 4 minutes For a while, Europe’s foodtech sector felt unstoppable. Money flooded into vertical farming, alternative proteins, rapid grocery delivery platforms and futuristic food concepts that promised
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK bioacoustic crop monitoring specialist AgriSound has been awarded funding as part of the Innovate UK Full Adopt Grant Round 3, to support its project aimed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tesco has launched applications for its 2026 Agri-tech Challenge, inviting innovators from around the world to develop technologies capable of strengthening the resilience, sustainability and
Reading Time: 3 minutes The food industry absolutely loves a trend. One minute everybody is drinking charcoal smoothies and eating activated almonds, the next they’ve vanished without a trace;
Reading Time: 2 minutes Former science minister and Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman has called for a renewed government focus on agri-tech investment, warning that the UK risks undermining one
Reading Time: 2 minutes A £50 million agri-tech investment package has been unveiled by the UK government to accelerate the rollout of cutting-edge technologies onto farms, with a clear
Reading Time: 2 minutes The escalating conflict involving Iran has sparked renewed calls for the UK to accelerate investment in agritech, as policymakers warn that global instability is once
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new forward-looking report has highlighted edible insects, cell-cultivated foods and vertical farming among the innovations most likely to shape what ends up on UK
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agritech innovators must design technologies that integrate seamlessly with real-world farm operations and emerging digital standards if they are to accelerate the transition towards a
Reading Time: 2 minutes A pioneering project by Sustain Wiltshire aims to turn landfill sites into low‑carbon, affordable fresh produce production hubs, using inflatable growing domes powered and enriched
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK risks losing its stake in the fast-growing £6bn global seaweed market as bureaucracy and sluggish decision-making stall progress. A new policy brief from
Reading Time: 2 minutes The UK’s flagship farm support scheme has had a makeover — and it could be the catalyst British precision agriculture has been waiting for. At
Reading Time: 2 minutes Slug damage is quietly costing UK arable farmers an eye-watering £43.5 million every year — and this year, researchers believe they’re closer than ever to
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