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Innovative bee delivery tech helps strawberries fight botrytis
Reading Time: 2 minutes An innovative bee delivery system that builds up the natural immunity of plants to various fungal diseases, including Botrytis, a global threat to fresh fruit and
Is Agriculture Ready for Autonomous Tractors?
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new white paper from Agri-EPI Centre, the Agricultural Innovation Centre for Precision and Engineering Technology, offers recommendations related to future developments of autonomous agricultural
Can augmented reality actually benefit the food industry?
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
World’s largest vertical farm to deliver leafy greens to UK supermarkets
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
Agritech to strengthen UK-Brazil trade ties
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
How machine vision helps automate lettuce harvesting
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lettuce is an incredibly valuable crop, but labour shortages make it difficult to harvest, as sourcing sufficient seasonal labour to meet harvesting commitments is one
Discolls and Plenty to develop exclusive strawberry indoor vertical farm
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
One of the UK’s largest vertical farms to be created in Suffolk warehouse
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
Programme Aimed At Boosting Agritech And Agri-Food Start-Ups Set To Return This Spring
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
‘Sugar dots’ technology to supercharge crop growth
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
Start-up to launch one of UK’s biggest vertical farms in London next year
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
Funding of £2.5m for what is widely considered to be the world’s first robotic farm
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
UK tech partnership to launch world-first service letting farmers see through clouds
Reading Time: 2 minutes A world-first service that could revolutionise the way satellite imagery is used in precision agriculture has today been announced by UK technology companies Origin Digital and Aspia
What is agrivoltaics? How can solar energy and agriculture work together?
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
£500k boost for indoor crop tech that could help UK become more self-sufficient in food
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
New sustainable salad is being grown in urban shipping containers by a member of the Sainsbury’s dynasty
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
Ocado at forefront of vertical farming revolution
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
The potential of Nanotechnology in agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutes The availability of net land and water for agriculture is quickly decreasing, resulting in massive losses in agricultural productivity. What’s more, the rising concentrations of herbicides,
Universities unite to improve farm research and innovation
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,
Using the Power of Light to Increase UK Crop Production
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