Robotic mushroom picking, strawberry yield forecasting and new bio-based materials to drive down the carbon footprint of car manufacturing are three new spin-outs to emerge from Ceres Agri-Tech, a partnership which includes six Agri-TechE members.
Dr Paul Kersey is the Deputy Director of Science at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens. His particular interest is genomics and bioinformatics, which play an increasing role in Kew’s scientific mission. Paul is taking part in the Sofa Session at REAP 2021, so ahead of the conference we asked him what the theme of time means to him.
“A good farm vet now needs to be able to understand data, statistics and the risks to really advise and help the farmer and this includes the implementation of technology,” Matthew Dobbs, a former farm vet and now Digital Practice Lead for Stonehaven Consultancy is joining the Sofa Session at REAP 2021.
“The wealth of publicly available data from the Copernicus programme is a fantastic resource to monitor climate change and land use change, and to provide information at landscape scale,” comments Dr Tewkesbury of Airbus, a speaker in the Sofa Session of REAP 2021.
As part of a national objective to increase food security, the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has identified agri-tech is one of the priorities for investment. This is all towards Sheikh Zayed’s vision of turning the desert green #GrowWithAbuDhabi.
The passing of time gives crops, livestock – and even companies – time to mature. As REAP 2021 advances on us, it’s time to celebrate the recent successes of three home-grown companies in our membership which demonstrate how the UK’s agritech ecosystem is growing up.
A new long-term funding programme to support farmers, growers, foresters and other businesses to embrace innovative new ways to maximise productivity and drive sustainability has opened for applications today, 20 October.
Paul Coleman, Managing Director at Crop4Sight, discusses the challenges that time poses in agriculture, ahead of the REAP conference
Alex Macdonald-Smith, COO of Drone Ag, discusses the challenges that time poses in agriculture, ahead of the REAP conference.
Adam Wolf, CEO of Arable, discusses the challenges that time poses in agriculture, ahead of the REAP conference
Rupert Harlow, Relationship Manager at Yagro, discusses the challenges that time poses in agriculture, ahead of the REAP conference
Evidence that the agri-tech ecosystem is maturing has come with the announcement of a number of large deals