£5m funding to accelerate agricultural innovation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Small and medium-sized farm businesses will be able to apply for a share of £5 million to fund innovative ideas aimed at boosting sustainable food
Reading Time: 2 minutes Small and medium-sized farm businesses will be able to apply for a share of £5 million to fund innovative ideas aimed at boosting sustainable food
Reading Time: 3 minutes Defra has announced that they will be allocating £9.13 million to three innovative projects for research & development on strategies to increase agricultural production, sustainability,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Growing commercial crops on solar farms can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance and longevity, according to new Cornell University research published in
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our food system is at a major turning point. Now, more than ever before, we need to embrace innovation and creativity to be able to
Reading Time: 3 minutes Agriculture is one of the oldest fields of human activity, but today it cannot remain aloof from total digitalization. Through the development of modern technology
Reading Time: 5 minutes The agritech industry is turning to industrial IoT and other technologies as firms aim to solve the challenges of feeding a growing global population. The
Reading Time: 4 minutes Feeding the world is getting trickier. The sharp rises in the cost of living that followed the Covid-19 crisis have only been exacerbated by the
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cropin, the global agritech company which built the world’s first industry cloud for agriculture, has secured funding from new investors Google and JSR Corporation, as
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite there being a desire to increase the sustainability of farms across the world, sometimes the tools are simply not in place to see this
Reading Time: 8 minutes The issue of how to feed a growing population, and do it sustainably, is a crucial issue for the 21st century and has been brought
Reading Time: 4 minutes These are just some of the inventions created by the talented men and women under 30-years of age who have made this year’s Forbes magazine’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new agritech partnership is launching in Gloucestershire to encourage growth and innovation in the sector. The Gloucestershire Agri-Tech Partnership is a collaboration between the
Reading Time: 3 minutes New data and robotics projects could bring much needed time, cost and labour savings to UK vineyard producers, according to ag-tech experts. Vineyard owner Ian
Reading Time: 4 minutes An £11.4m new business hub has opened outside Norwich with ambitions to fulfil East Anglia’s potential as a powerhouse food and drink producer. The Broadland Food Innovation Centre
Reading Time: 2 minutes The entrepreneur, innovator and former Managing Director of Greenyard UK has dedicated his entire working career to the fresh produce industry; leading numerous companies to
Reading Time: 4 minutes Combining satellite technology with precision machinery, has enabled cereal grower, Pat Thornton, to reap the rewards of better crop uniformity and yield, by optimising inputs
Reading Time: 2 minutes When most of us think of farming, we tend to picture wide-open fields of swaying wheat, or neat rows of tomatoes and lettuce unfurling under
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the increasing cost of living affects more households across Britain, people are paying more attention to where they get their basic everyday items from, especially what
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ‘pollination management’ company as developed ways to measure insect activity to benefit farmers. A innovative firm that uses acoustic technology and environmental sensors to
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Hutchinsons Helix project allows growers to trial and adapt new technology developments and innovations at whole-farm scale. When asked why Barelees Farm was chosen
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