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£11.4m innovation centre hailed as ‘game-changer’ for food industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes An £11.4m new business hub has opened outside Norwich with ambitions to fulfil East Anglia’s potential as a powerhouse food and drink producer. The Broadland Food Innovation Centre
Alan Forrester recognised for lifetime achievement at FPC Fresh Awards 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes The entrepreneur, innovator and former Managing Director of Greenyard UK has dedicated his entire working career to the fresh produce industry; leading numerous companies to
How can IoT mitigate the impact of droughts on harvests?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK 2022 summer has been the driest summer since 1995, and this dry period is expected to ravage farmers’ 2022 harvest with losses predicted
Engineered crops key to solving world hunger, says Bill Gates
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bill Gates has called for greater investment in engineered crops that can adapt to climate change and resist agricultural pests, in an effort to solve
Agritech firm secures funding to help farmers cut nitrogen fertiliser use
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agreed Earth, an agritech company that helps farmers reduce their reliance on nitrogen through regenerative farming, has received an investment from Regenerate Ventures. Agreed Earth
“Get the science part of Brexit done!” New PM warned we are “losing talent” to EU
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss has been urged to get the “science part of Brexit done” as the UK is “losing talent” by
Digital decision-making tool delivers on-farm efficiency
Reading Time: 4 minutes Combining satellite technology with precision machinery, has enabled cereal grower, Pat Thornton, to reap the rewards of better crop uniformity and yield, by optimising inputs
New Study Reveals How Crucial Urban Farming Is To Food Security
Reading Time: 2 minutes When most of us think of farming, we tend to picture wide-open fields of swaying wheat, or neat rows of tomatoes and lettuce unfurling under
Fresh Awards finalists launch new features for crop-tracking app
Reading Time: 2 minutes KisanHub, a Cambridge-based agritech firm and finalists of the 2022 FPC Fresh Awards, has launched a number of new features for its innovative crop-tracking software.
Are indoor vertical farms really ‘future-proofing agriculture’?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Heralded as the next step in food production, this practice is gaining ground in the US. But are they really a greener alternative to traditional
UK innovation centre to help boost produce grown on Europe’s largest vertical farm
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
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.