Reading Time: 2 minutes Commercial greenhouse growers La Serra and indoor farming technology provider LettUs Grow have partnered to conduct tomato propagation trials. The first aeroponic trials were conducted
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two new dynamic and highly relevant events have been developed by the UK’s Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) to educate and arm the industry in terms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sean Lee, co-founder of E-farm, explains how he is changing people’s perceptions of farming by growing organic vegetables in the city using innovative methods. Lee got
Reading Time: 3 minutes FPC Future, taking place on 4 November at the Lincolnshire Showground, is proud to announce one of its special features, the Dutch Pavilion, is filling
Reading Time: 5 minutes The world faces a growing food systems crisis. The number of people who go to sleep hungry around the world grew by over 100 million
Reading Time: 3 minutes Arla Foods on-farm R&D facility was formally launched last week, showcasing a range of trials that are testing the tech of the future. The Arla
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a long time, creating the perfect plant recipe has been a mere pipe dream for indoor growers as they look to achieve optimal crop
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new UK factory is set to transform potatoes into protein, which can then be used to make plant-based meats. Built by British food and
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Bosch and BASF Digital Farming to globally market and sell smart farming technologies from a single source has now
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we journey into a 5G connected world the challenge of achieving true sustainability becomes more relevant than ever. Energy efficiency needs to be a
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian agritech business whose one-of-a-kind technology enables the commercial farming of produce using primarily salt water, received a $10 million
Reading Time: 3 minutes For as long as traditional outdoor crops are exposed to ever-volatile climates around the globe there will always be variations in agricultural yields. However, agriculture
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Precision agriculture’ where farmers respond in real time to changes in crop growth using nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) could offer a practical solution to
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers are being asked to assist in a new study looking at the spread of rat’s tail fescue, a grass weed that is already posing
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new £3.2 million Agri-informatics facility has been officially opened at Cranfield University by Rt Hon. George Eustice MP, the Secretary of State for Environment,
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We’re looking at a future where farmers will be operating their businesses in an agritech environment fully underpinned by automation, artificial intelligence and real-time data.”
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Plastic Pollution Debate. The Plastic Pandemic. War on Plastic. Call it what you like but it’s impossible to ignore the global backlash against the
Reading Time: < 1 minute When Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, he pledged to “liberate the U.K.’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti–genetic modification rules.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glowfarms was formed in mid 2020 by Luc de Vries and Ben Pieterse with the goal of creating a vertical farming company with “a perfect
Reading Time: 3 minutes UV sterilization and microbial stability analysis used to recycle nutrient solution; proposed method minimizes the use fertilizers and water by hydroponic farms. The development of
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