Colin Morgan joins ADAS as business development director
Agri-TechE Boxworth, UK. His appointment as business development director comes at an exciting time of growth for the team and enables expansion of the current client base by developing new client relationships and increasing our service offering to existing clients.
Colin joins the team from DNV Global. His 15 years’ experience in sustainability includes global supply chains in food and commodities, as well as working with global food brands to support them in developing and strengthening responsible sourcing strategies.
With broad experience across all aspects of sustainability, Colin’s recent projects have included working in food and farming businesses across the world. This encompasses projects in Burkina Faso with the shea sector, in Bangladesh on human rights in farming, and in Saudi Arabia using sustainability frameworks with food production businesses. He has also worked extensively with UK food producers. Colin is interested in new and emerging food and farming systems and approaches, including novel crops, and is highly competent in understanding the challenges in modern farming and the opportunities open to the sector to improve wellbeing in society. He will be responsible for implementing a growth strategy to enable the Sustainable Food and Farming business to expand its offering in the corporate food sector.
You can find out more about the team’s service offerings on the Sustainable Food and Farming section of our website. For more information, please contact Sarah Wynn. Interested in joining the ADAS team? You can view our current job openings here.
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To assess the cost-benefit of precision agriculture, we have used Andersons’ Loam Farm model to trial precision farming on its wheat enterprise (300 Ha). Loam Farm is a notional business, based in the East of England, which has been running since 1991 and tracks the fortunes of combinable cropping farms. It comprises 600 hectares in a simple rotation of milling wheat, oilseed rape, feed wheat and spring beans, and is based on real-life data. The financial performance for Loam Farm as a whole (i.e. all enterprises) is shown in Figure 1 for 2017 under the status quo and precision agriculture scenarios. The precision agriculture techniques applied included soil mapping and GPS auto-steering whilst variable rate application was also built-in to the equipment used.
much change, innovation and financial sector firsts – from launching the world’s first cash dispenser in the 1960s to more recent innovations like cheque-imaging and Pingit, the phone-to-phone payment system. Clearly Barclays has an understanding of the need for innovation and, especially in this current era, the use of technology to improve efficiency and keep business productive, profitable, viable and vibrant.
If you are looking to finance a budding business idea in the Agri-TechE sector or to invest in technology for your farming business to improve efficiency and competitiveness and want an informal chat, call Craig Sigley, Barclays Regional Agricultural Manager, on 07775 543705 to discuss how we might be able to help.
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The drive for innovation can be harnessed not only into a research aspect of exploring and exploiting all the molecules present, but into the technological side – engineering innovation is needed for down-stream processing, especially the steps involving de-watering – and into market-making for the end-products.
Nicole Sadd, Executive Director of RoCRE comments on the importance of being part of UKSPA: “It’s vital that the innovation centres we build here at RoCRE are fit for purpose and we’re looking forward to building many fruitful relationships with other like-minded parks and organisations. Being part of UKSPA will help us ensure that RoCRE is not only firmly on the map in terms of our state-of-the-art facilities and offering as a centre for innovation and collaboration, but will also help us build a network of relationships across the UK with other parks, to share ideas and best practice. Connecting with these businesses will cement our position in UK innovation culture. Of course, we also want to look at how we can continually keep up with and exceed the competition!”
