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Farmers sought in fight against new grass weed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers are being asked to assist in a new study looking at the spread of rat’s tail fescue, a grass weed that is already posing
Finding True Value at the Edge
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’d have to be living in a cave not to have heard the quote “data is the new oil” over the past twelve months or
New Agri-informatics facility to help accelerate pace of digital agriculture adoption
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new £3.2 million Agri-informatics facility has been officially opened at Cranfield University by Rt Hon. George Eustice MP, the Secretary of State for Environment,
Farms of the future: The bigger picture
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We’re looking at a future where farmers will be operating their businesses in an agritech environment fully underpinned by automation, artificial intelligence and real-time data.”
Sustainability: Can we win the war on plastic?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Plastic Pollution Debate. The Plastic Pandemic. War on Plastic. Call it what you like but it’s impossible to ignore the global backlash against the
In Brexit unwind, England will break this month from restrictive EU gene-edited crop rules
Reading Time: < 1 minute When Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, he pledged to “liberate the U.K.’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti–genetic modification rules.”
How a dairy farm increased their milk production by 18% with IoT and Machine Learning
Reading Time: 2 minutes According to the latest research from Libelium, by 2050, the global population will be 9.8 billion. Getting food production to be as effective as possible is
Bird-like drone to help remote farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutes A revolutionary new drone has been developed that mimics bird flight, making it more practical for farmers in remote locations who were limited in drone
The perfect balance of agritech and marketing
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glowfarms was formed in mid 2020 by Luc de Vries and Ben Pieterse with the goal of creating a vertical farming company with “a perfect
Eco-friendly smart farms based on nutrient solution recirculation
Reading Time: 3 minutes UV sterilization and microbial stability analysis used to recycle nutrient solution; proposed method minimizes the use fertilizers and water by hydroponic farms. The development of
Automating design and engineering through Artificial Intelligence
Reading Time: 2 minutes “While it’s not yet possible to get Alexa or any other AI-powered digital assistant to pump out the perfect drone design and queue it up
5 external factors that affect the global food supply
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that last year, global food prices increased the most they had done in a decade? As the world becomes more populous, we need more
Ramp up your processes to ramp up your profits
Reading Time: 3 minutes So you’re about to start your agritech journey? Having the correct processes in place from the very beginning can increase your chances of success significantly.
Agricultural labour in the UK
Reading Time: 2 minutes The UK’s agricultural workforce has always been on the frontline of change. As an industrialising country the UK went through the world’s first technology-driven economic