Press releases, articles and stories from our members in the agri-tech cluster (see guidance) . This information is provided by third parties and published in good faith.
The brains behind Small Robot Company’s team of agri-robots has been launched at REAP 2020. Wilma provides per plant intelligence on plant health.
Using microbes to convert carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into a new type of single-cell protein called Proton, Deep Branch has developed a low carbon animal feed with a nutritional profile that is comparable with fishmeal, the gold-standard protein source in aquafeed. The company has secured €2.5 million of EIC Accelerator funding to build a new facility at the Netherlands-based Brightlands Chemelot Campus.
Iceni Diagnostics has appointed BBI Solutions to produce clinical trial batches for their new, rapid SARS-COV-2/Influenza virus detection test. The test exploits the diagnostic company’s unique, proprietary HPGR™ (Host-Pathogen Glycan Recognition) technology to detect the presence of live virus in non-invasive samples within 15 minutes.
Plant phenotyping is an emerging science that links the structure and appearance of a plant, its phenotype, with its underlying genomics. Analysing the phenotype is therefore important for research so, to determine the success of breeding, a new system from Analytik combines machine-learning with sensors to provide a rapid digital analysis of phenotyping traits.
The new Crop Science Centre brings together excellence in discovery science from the Dept of Plant Sciences with NIAB’s unparalleled expertise in applied crop research. At the launch, director Professor Giles Oldroyd said: “We are excited to be opening this new Centre, which can drive the transformative change we so desperately need.”
To accelerate development of new sensors for the Internet of Agri-things, and tackle issues such as rural crimes including sheep-rustling, Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils have laid the UK’s first free Innovation Network of internet gateways spanning across rural East Anglia.
YAGRO Analytics aggregates on-farm business data to create a simple online tool that gives the farm manager incredible detail and insight
Barn4, a purpose-built Cambridge agritech incubator that will give start-ups access to sector specific expertise and laboratory facilities is to be co-located on the NIAB Park Farm site in Histon. Tenants will be benefit from access to the recently redeveloped Park Farm field research station, which includes two new large research and office buildings and state-of-the-art research glasshouses.
FOLIUM Science’s Guided Biotics enables highly selective control of unwanted bacteria – even those resistant to antimicrobials – while protecting closely related beneficial species of bacteria. The collaboration with John Innes Centre sees it apply its technology to economically important crop diseases such as Xanthomonas and Xylella
Transforming carbon dioxide released from power stations into high protein animal feed, is the aim of REACT-FIRST, an initiative that aims to create the UK’s first scalable route to the sustainable protein generation.
The project, which is led by Deep Branch, will contribute to meeting the UK’s Net Zero climate change commitment as well as to the circular economy. It has gained £3M from Innovate UK as part of the government’s Transforming Food Production strand of the Industrial Strategy.
Robot Highways will develop the world’s first fully robotic soft fruit farm. A fleet of robots will perform a multitude of on-farm functions as one operation, powered by renewable energy.