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Ag robot startup from the UK raises £1.5M to fix farming
Reading Time: 2 minutes Muddy Machines, an AgTech and robotics company that helps automate crop harvesting, has received £1.5M in seed funding. Regenerate Ventures led the latest round of
AgriSound secures £75k funding to pilot insect listening tech
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ‘pollination management’ company as developed ways to measure insect activity to benefit farmers. A innovative firm that uses acoustic technology and environmental sensors to
Field scale data proving to be an important aspect in decision making
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Hutchinsons Helix project allows growers to trial and adapt new technology developments and innovations at whole-farm scale. When asked why Barelees Farm was chosen
Can food crops grow in the dark? Scientists are working out how
Reading Time: 6 minutes Experiments suggest that it might become possible to nourish plants without photosynthesis—a tool that could one day help feed a crowded planet. Science fiction stories
Defra publishes review into on-farm automation amid labour shortages
Reading Time: 2 minutes Defra has published the results of a review exploring how the horticulture sector can make use of innovative tech such as packhouse automation, AI enabled
Taste of the future? Vertical farming is finally growing up in the UK
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
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.
Innovation Agri-Tech Group & University of Essex Secure Funding to Create £3.5 million Facility
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
Leeds University and ASDA Announce Data Partnership
Reading Time: 3 minutes Asda and the University have joined forces to better understand pressing societal challenges such as nutrition, environmental and health issues through a strategic data partnership.
Innovation Agri-Tech Group Appoints Global Sales Team To Transition Business To Revenue
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
Yorkshire farm generates first carbon credits in pioneering new Net Zero approach from agriculture
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
Smart Farming Almond Pioneers Poised for International Growth
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
How were 50,000 meals worth of fruit prevented from going to waste?
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
Robotics, artificial intelligence and advanced agriculture are changing the way we produce food!
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
Growing plants with sound: LettUs Grow develops ultrasonic technology to boost sustainable production in horticulture
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
Produce Packaging Ripe for Innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes From European plastic bans to consumers pushing for what they perceive to be more sustainable packaging, produce companies are finding ways to maintain or improve
Small robot company launches robot services to 50 farms
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
Could vertical farms be the answer to ending soft fruit and herb imports to UK?
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.
Root Extracts: Revolutionising the potato production supply chain
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
Global food supply chain at risk from malicious hackers
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