How can IoT mitigate the impact of droughts on harvests?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK 2022 summer has been the driest summer since 1995, and this dry period is expected to ravage farmers’ 2022 harvest with losses predicted
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK 2022 summer has been the driest summer since 1995, and this dry period is expected to ravage farmers’ 2022 harvest with losses predicted
Reading Time: 2 minutes KisanHub, a Cambridge-based agritech firm and finalists of the 2022 FPC Fresh Awards, has launched a number of new features for its innovative crop-tracking software.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Asda and the University have joined forces to better understand pressing societal challenges such as nutrition, environmental and health issues through a strategic data partnership.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The smart farming pioneers at Veracruz Almonds are poised for international growth, as they seek to expand exports into the UK following GlobalGAP accreditation. The
Reading Time: 2 minutes The B2B Fresh Produce Marketplace FruPro celebrates a huge fresh produce donation made possible through their platform and are calling for more businesses to join
Reading Time: 4 minutes From commonsense sustainable practices to idiocentric genome-specific personalisations, to robotic kitchens, to cellular agriculture, food systems in the future will make you jump out of
Reading Time: 4 minutes How can you grow plants with sound? Indoor farming specialists at LettUs Grow have developed a method of growing plants using ultrasonics and water instead
Reading Time: 3 minutes Root crop R&D agri-tech firm B-hive Innovations has developed Root Extracts Ltd. The venture will extract plant-based protein from outgrade potatoes and peeling waste, as part of a
Reading Time: 3 minutes An £11.4m project is taking shape outside Norwich which aims to fulfil the potential of East Anglia’s food and drink economy. The Broadland Food Innovation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Detecting crop disease invisible to the naked eye could soon be a reality for UK farmers, thanks to the development of an innovative handheld imaging
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the global population has expanded over time, agricultural modernisation has been humanity’s prevailing approach to staving off famine. A variety of mechanical and chemical
Reading Time: 3 minutes While augmented reality (AR) has been around for some time, the adoption of the technology has been slow. Part of the reason for this for
Reading Time: 2 minutes A successful ‘pre-accelerator’ programme aimed at boosting sapling agritech and agri-food start-ups is set to return this Spring. Cultivate 2.0, run by Harper Adams University
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Bristol startup behind carbon-based technology to supercharge crop growth and reduce farming’s climate footprint has raised £1 million. Glaia was founded in 2019 by
Reading Time: 4 minutes Robot Highways’ is a project which aims to ensure industry sustainability by addressing labour shortages, the need for global food production and reduce the environmental
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sixteen UK universities have come together to agree research and innovation priorities for agriculture. The aim is to help farmers meet net-zero and environment targets,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Technology is set to revolutionise farming, increase productivity and help move UK agriculture towards its goal of being carbon neutral by 2040 but a new survey
Reading Time: 3 minutes Digital technologies are transforming modern agriculture and making production more sustainable. The precision farming concept enables farmers to be more informed about all the fields
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mapping every tree in the world and creating the most accurate tree database is a bold ambition. However, one technology company, Tremap, aims to achieve
Reading Time: 2 minutes The NFU has launched a farmer-focused broadband and mobile phone survey in a bid to inform its work on getting an efficient service rolled out
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