Exploiting soil microbes to fight potato late blight
Reading Time: 2 minutes Natural organisms found in soil and their use as novel fungicides, is being explored in a new project to help farmers overcome potato late blight.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Natural organisms found in soil and their use as novel fungicides, is being explored in a new project to help farmers overcome potato late blight.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The major funding boost will be used to create a state-of-the-art indoor crop growth facility to explore how to future-proof crop production for an increasing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cover crops on a Yorkshire farm have become the first in the world to generate arable carbon credits – in a new initiative that could
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: 4 minutes The Small Robot Company (SRC) plans to roll out Britain’s first fully autonomous crop-scanning service across 50 farms next season, which has the potential to
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘It won’t be long in the future that it will become unacceptable to air-freight fresh herbs into the country,’ said the company’s head of growing.
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: 4 minutes Modern “smart” farm machinery is vulnerable to malicious hackers, leaving global supply chains exposed to risk, experts are warning. It is feared hackers could exploit
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: 11 minutes On a dull morning in April, with chilly drizzle falling from a grey sky, it is possible to think of more promising places to grow
Reading Time: 2 minutes A fully autonomous, solar-powered robot capable of precision drilling and weeding has been launched by Opico. Offering pesticide-free weed control with zero fuel bills, the
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK growers are adopting smart, digital farming at a rapid rate, but as fertiliser prices escalate and new environmental regulations roll out, their use can
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trade is a two-way street and the UK agricultural sector will benefit from increased trade with Brazil, according to a Brazilian official. In February, a
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: 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: 3 minutes Agri PV or Agrivoltaics consists on integrating PV modules above the crops in order to enhance climate resilience and allow sustainable food and energy production
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Derbyshire firm which makes technology to improve indoor crop yields has received £500,000 to develop a new type of lighting and sensor system. Light
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