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Leaders in the Field

Some inspirational thinkers share their views of different aspects of agri-tech.

Neil Hall, credit Anthony Cullen

Big population data offers new advances in disease management

The Earlham Institute is developing new ways to analyse and manage large biological datasets. By making multiple measurements of crops through imagery, biochemical data and genetic data it is able to predict which genes need to be selected to increase yields or protect against crop disease.

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26/03/2021
Moving tow carbon neutral Chris Brown Sustainable Supply Chains ASDA

Is the future a carbon neutral basket of shopping?

“This feels like a tipping point”, says Chris Brown, Senior Director of Sustainable Supply Chains at ASDA.

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26/02/2021

Nurtured woods provide farming goods, say the Forestry Commission

“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.”

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25/09/2020

Growing a Revolution – could soil health provide an income stream?

“Carbon credits could provide an income stream for farmers based on societal value of carbon’, says David R Montgomery, keynote speaker at REAP 2020.

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31/07/2020
Louisa Burwood-Taylor - GROW Leader feat

UK agri-tech diverse and active

The UK agri-tech scene is by far the most active in Europe and offers a very diverse ecosystem, according to Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Head of Research and Media at AgFunder and guest speaker at the GROW final.

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26/05/2020

Alternative proteins – big opportunity for UK farmers?

There is a big market demand for locally grown plant-based proteins but land area for alternative crops has not increased for the last 40 years – are UK farmers missing an opportunity?

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25/05/2020
Flooding

Cervest creating ways to analyse and measure the risk of climate uncertainty on any asset

“To provide more resilience against climate uncertainty everywhere as quickly as possible, we have started building a global inventory –with UK/Europe first – of land assets such as those just described and then mapping them at speed.” says Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer at Cervest. “We may be putting our livelihoods at risk unless we accurately and objectively understand how climate uncertainty effects the assets we rely on, and have a better way to manage them.”

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25/03/2020
David Farquhar, CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions

Masters of the sun, wind and rain: Intelligent solutions to Controlled Environment Agriculture

“We need to get honest about three things: the economics; the climate impact; and the range and quality of things that we can actually grow. Until we start to get a really serious narrative about that, the CEA industry will never move forward,” says David Farquhar, CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions.

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29/02/2020
Ben & Hannah Witchell in the vines - Flint Vineyard CROP

Creating a vineyard in Norfolk

A chance e-mail from a young couple passionate about wine created an exciting opportunity for a traditional Norfolk farm to diversify. Flint Vineyard had its first harvest in 2019 diversification .  Ben and Hannah Witchell shared their plans for producing quality wine in the UK and very soon Flint Vineyards was up and running. The vineyard had its first harvest in 2019, which promises to be a vintage year for English wines.  Ben will talk about the journey in the February 2020 Pollinator. 

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27/01/2020
Adrian Percy

One Agriculture is a great theme says Adrian Percy CTO for UPL

Adrian Percy, former Global Head of R&D for Crop Science at Bayer, is to chair the Sofa Session at REAP

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14/10/2019
Swarm Robotics Alan Millard

Will swarm robotics for agri-food enable truly precise agriculture?

“Robot swarms will enable truly precise agriculture – targeted spraying of individual plants, and selective harvesting of crops that are actually ripe – rather than treating an entire field identically,” comments Alan Millard ahead of the swarm robotics event.

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04/03/2019
Rhydian Beynon-Davies, Stockbridge Technology Centre

Market opportunities for controlled environment agriculture – CEA 2019

There is a big market opportunity for controlled environment agriculture (CEA) according to Rhydian Beynon-Davies, Head of Novel Growing Systems at Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC). He comments: “The world will need sustainable solutions to an increasing extent in the future and we should be the ones to supply those solutions.”

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22/01/2019
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