Salary: £35,000 – £45,000
CD: Saturday 31st October 2020
Innovation Manager in Livestock – Pig & Poultry sectors
Measurement for Recovery helps solve analysis or measurement issues that cannot be resolved using standard technologies and techniques. Our aim is to help boost resilience and competitiveness by bringing together the UK’s top scientists and facilities with companies, to address problems in innovative ways.
Bayer have announced that it has opened the application window for its Grants4Ag initiative. First introduced in 2015, the initiative has evolved in 2020 to offer researchers financial and scientific support to develop ideas for novel solutions across all research and development areas in the Division of Crop Science.
The benefits for farmers of growing trees within crops are not widely known, according to Dr Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE, ahead of an Agri-TechE online event “Seeing the Wood for the Trees”.
“Forestry and Land Scotland has strong ambitions to grow millions more trees, but they simply don’t have enough trees to meet demand,” says Phillip Ayres of Elsoms Seeds, speaking about recent experiments ahead of October’s Agroforestry webinar.
“Forestry and farming to date has been a binary choice but it doesn’t need to be – combining the two can bring new incomes and benefits to the soil,” says Jim O’Neill, of the Forestry Commission. “This isn’t the traditional way of farming, but it is becoming necessary to start thinking outside the box.”
Agri-TechE together with Agrimetrics has defined one of the challenges for the Gravity Challenge 02. The finalists Oxford-based Deep Planet and Cambridge Super-Sharp Space Systems will compete to identify new ways that satellite, positioning and communication technologies can enable farmers to measure and verify sustainability metrics such as carbon and habitat change.
REAP is where those passionate about agri-tech meet to exchange ideas. A key feature of REAP is the Start-up Showcase, an opportunity to have early sight of emerging technologies with the potential to revolutionise agricultural production.
To accelerate development of new sensors for the Internet of Agri-things, and tackle issues such as rural crimes including sheep-rustling, Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils have laid the UK’s first free Innovation Network of internet gateways spanning across rural East Anglia.
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 depending on experience
CD: not specified
Map of Ag are looking for a .Net Web App developer to support the expansion, development and improvement of a client-facing portal which provides various online digital mapping services.
YAGRO Analytics aggregates on-farm business data to create a simple online tool that gives the farm manager incredible detail and insight