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: 3 minutes Vertical farms promise to boost food security, reduce emissions and do away with fertilisers – and they are springing up across the UK The only
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: 2 minutes Agricultural technology company, Innovation Agri-Tech Group (‘IAG’), has appointed an experienced sales team as the business heads out of R&D phase and gets ready for the Ascent
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: 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 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: 3 minutes Sustainable food producer OneFarm has announced its plans to deliver a 6,400m2 vertical farm in Newmarket, Suffolk, capable of growing up to 415 tonnes of food per annum
Reading Time: 2 minutes Berry Gardens, the UK’s largest supplier of berries and cherries, and Jones Food Company, owner of Europe’s largest indoor vertical farm, have agreed terms to
Reading Time: 2 minutes A next-generation vertical farming system is being developed in Southwell, which will address global food challenges by using hi-tech growing methods to produce nutritious fresh
Reading Time: 2 minutes Four acre site set to produce as much veg as 1,000 acres of traditional British farmland, after Fischer Farms secures latest funding round Six-an-a-half tonnes
Reading Time: 2 minutes One year after announcing their joint research and development work to grow strawberries indoors, Driscoll’s, the leading consumer brand in fresh premium berries, and Plenty Unlimited Inc. are
Reading Time: 2 minutes OneFarm plans to create one of the largest vertical farms in the UK at Newmarket Business Park. The first phase of the project would involve
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the UK’s largest vertical farms could be launched in London next year by a business which supplies basil grown in a Leyton warehouse. The 5,000 square metre site
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
Reading Time: 4 minutes Each batch of 600 lettuces needs only the equivalent of a household dishwasher’s worth of water. round the corner from the traffic-choked roundabout at Elephant
Reading Time: 2 minutes Vertical farming is forecast to grow by 20% per year through to 2030, with Credit Suisse pinpointing UK’s Ocado as the most engaged company. Vertical
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: 3 minutes Yield, taste, and time to harvest can all be impacted by light. Photosynthesis (the process by which plants convert sunlight to biomass) is a bottleneck
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the past 12 months, the potential promised by Agritech has finally established itself, reflects Simon Deacon, CEO and founder of Light Science Technologies. We’re
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