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.
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.
Blossom Genetics, is developing medical grade cannabis genetics and products. The company has been listed as one of the top 10 EU start-ups in cannatech
Aerial and terrestrial swarm robots are set to transform Latin American Agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.
Map of Agriculture Group (Map of Ag) has added New Zealand-based Rezare Systems, a specialist agri-software development house, to its portfolio in a deal which completed on 30th June.
Glaia Ltd’s use of nanotechnology-based solutions for sustainable agriculture is one of three companies to have been awarded £140,000 from the SHAKE Climate Change Programme, to help agriculture go carbon neutral.
Consus Fresh Solutions, developers of intelligent audit systems for packhouses, has announced it is to merge with the Affinitus GroupConsus
Producers have dedicated QA staff to check daily for quality, temperature, labelling, and packaging. In addition they need to respond within hours to unannounced audits, and these create a huge overhead for producers. The Consus system reduces the burden of audits and improves productivity.
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