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
Reading Time: 4 minutes Smart sensing technology to help farmers use fertiliser more effectively and reduce environmental damage has been created by Imperial bioengineers. The technology, which is described
Reading Time: 2 minutes AgriTech firm Light Science Technologies Ltd (LST) has announced the start of a project to develop a cloche lighting and sensor technology system for the
Reading Time: 2 minutes A ‘perfect storm’ of COVID, Brexit, a dearth of lorry drivers, and the carbon dioxide shortage have brought food shortages in the UK which one
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Cambridge company that helps fruit growers produce more fruit, be more efficient and increase sustainability by using drone technology and artificial intelligence has successfully
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC), in conjunction with the University of Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT), will present two exciting, new events for the
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Dutch vertical farming start-up, FarmVent, has developed an in-door micro-farming solution. It is an autonomous farm vending machine, created to make food production easier
Reading Time: 3 minutes Modern farming relies heavily on agritech. From using technologies like blockchain to measure the food supply chain, to having IoT sensors placed in the ground to test
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