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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
A lack of agritech knowledge is ‘holding farmers back’
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
How Your Farm Can Benefit from Digitalization
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
Why AppHarvest Is the Future of Traditional Farming
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the global food problem lingering, AppHarvest founder and CEO Jonathan Webb is not only willing to tackle it, but he’s also prepared to devote
New generation of on-farm experiments can transform agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Research carried out with farmers in the driving seat is crucial to finding practical answers to the urgent problems facing agriculture, such as climate change,
2021: A blazing year for Agritech
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
An app to map every tree in the world is coming
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
New NFU survey seeks farmers’ connectivity experiences
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
New Plant Scientist joins Light Science Technologies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agritech firm Light Science Technologies (LST) has announced a new addition to its rapidly expanding team of scientists, as the business experiences an accelerated period
Low-cost intelligent soil sensors could help farmers curb fertiliser use
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
Agriculture 4.0 breaks the surface at LAMMA
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture 4.0 is the term now being given to the wave of digital technology which, we are informed, is going to revolutionise the way that