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Agri-Tech Week 2021

Jonathan Sweet, Luke Palmer, Emily Cooledge and Lydia Smith (web)

#ATW21 Friday: Carbon avoidance or carbon capture?

A number of technologies to help avoid or reduce carbon emissions are in development at the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub, and these were featured in the #ATW21 event hosted by NIAB. From Inspro’s automated bioconverter system using black soldier flies and food waste, to Cambond’s valorisation of low grade carbon materials (such as brewers’ spent grain, straw, hemp fibres and paper waste sludge) for the construction industry, and the hydroponic vertical farming system funded through the Interreg Hy4Dense project.

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12/11/2021
NRP

#ATW21 Thursday: Sustainable Agriculture

At Norwich Research Park’s #ATW21 event we heard about how open science is helping in the fight against wheat blast disease, the risks of a soil carbon bubble, increasing resilience of rice to climate change and soil biodiversity.

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11/11/2021
Robotic Highways

#ATW21 Tuesday: Robotic Highways

“It’s really important that we don’t give the impression that adopting robotics and automation means that human labour isn’t still of critical important to the industry.” Coral Clark of the British Growers Association predicted that while some additional roles will be filled by the robots, soft fruit production is likely to be via a mix of human and automation in the longer term.

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09/11/2021
Nitrogen fertiliser Use Efficiency

#ATW21 Monday: Precision Nutrition

Farmers are benchmarking NfUE in order to determine the optimum fertiliser rate of application.“This approach resulted in £53/ha of savings, representing a 20% improvement compared to standard on-farm practice,” said Clive Blacker, Map of Ag

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09/11/2021

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