Considering an investment in robotics, on-farm water storage or LED lighting then grants are available through the Farming Investment Fund
A warm welcome to our final newsletter of 2021 – after what has been a full-on year for all those working across the agri-food value chain. We’d like to wish you all a very happy and healthy festive season and can’t wait to see you in 2022.
The pressure to reduce reliance on fossil fuels is leading to some innovative thinking over electrifying agriculture
LettUs Grow, has integrated an Agile Business tariff from Octopus Energy into its Ostara management system that enables indoor farmers to adjust their plant’s growth cycles to align with lower energy costs.
Better Origin is to provide insect mini farms for generating feed for 10 egg suppliers to Wm Morrison, UK’s fourth-largest grocer.
Once again the REAP Start-up Showcase has shown to identify future leaders. Gardin is developing a low-cost optical phenotyping sensor that will give a real-time indication of plant health and predictions of ripening, nutritional content and yield. The company has just raised $10.8 million.
BASF will establish a program that allows farmers to track and profit from practices reducing CO2 emissions, underlining its efforts to contribute to fighting climate change.
Silal, Abu Dhabi’s new fresh food and agritech company, is to invest AED 200 million to upgrade 80 local farms. The company is talking about farming in extreme conditions at an Agri-Tech Express Event
Trials have shown baby leaf salad crops germinate a day faster following treatment with Zayndu’s ‘cold plasma’ technology which creates a powerful disinfectant with no residues.
The CropTec show 2021 is one of few live events this year, so a great opportunity to catch up with our members that have a presence at the show.
“Farming is often at the sharp end of unpredictable weather events. Varieties that can provide growers with agronomic performance and still serve the market requirements will gradually come to the fore,” says Stephen Belcher, Principal Technical Officer of PGRO, discussing the reasons why varieties are included in the 2022 Descriptive Lists (DL) for pulse crops.