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.
Peas and beans are rich sources of plant protein, gluten-free and contain a starch with the potential to reverse diabetes when consumed as part of prescriptive diet, but the crops are challenging to grow well. To help more farmers increase yields and gain value from these pulses, the PGRO runs two Yield Enhancement Networks (YEN) to share best practice.
Cloud cover distorts satellite imagery, leading to gaps in data that hinder results. ‘ClearSky’, a technique being developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire uses radar data to fill the gaps caused by cloud cover. Agrimetrics plans to pre-link ClearSky to more than a billion agricultural data points.
As latest figures show a drop in meat sales, both in terms of volume and value, Breedr is making its powerful precision livestock app free of charge to drive productivity improvements across the whole value chain.
Coronavirus could be detected and distinguished from influenza using Iceni Diagnostics’ rapid, point-of-care screening technology.
The company has already developed a series of prototype products that can specifically detect pathogens such as Norovirus and different strains of influenza in less than 20 minutes. The most advanced product, for equine influenza, is performing well in early stage clinical trials.
Nine organisations, including Agri-TechE members Brown & Co and ADAS, have been awarded a share of the government’s £1 million Future Farming Resilience Funding. The projects will provide farmers with tailored on-farm advice to help them fully understand the changes ahead and to identify how to adapt their business models – through one-to-one advice on farms or group information workshops.
Farmable is a mobile app designed specifically for top fruit, which is fruit grown on trees such as apples and pears. All data from field operations are collected in one place and form the basis for a digital model of the farm to support decision making.
Lars Blikom, is the Farmable CEO and co-owner of one of Norway’s largest fruit farms he was looking for simple and pragmatic software to bridge the current gap between spreadsheets and robotics when he came up with the concept for Farmable.
YAGRO and Scrutton Bland launch new insurance product to help improve farmers’ bottom line, combating over-payments and inaccurate cover.
Agrimetrics has recently launched a new Data Marketplace, which promises to reward data-owners whilst accelerating innovation. Dr Matthew Smith, Agrimetrics Chief Product Officer, answers our questions about what it can offer farmers and others. “As both data providers and consumers are our customers, we’re interested in any data through which value could be created through its exchange.”
The worldwide legal cannabis industry generated revenues in the region of £11.5bn in 2019 and is expected to grow to around £35bn by 2024. The potential margins from growing medical cannabis are more lucrative per gram for a grower than strawberries.
Crop17 is a new initiative to support the develop medical cannabis facilities, launched by Savills in partnership with Hanway Associates, a leading cannabis strategic consultancy and CambridgeHOK, an innovative glass-house builder.
To help Hertfordshire farmers improve their decision making around when best to apply pesticides and fertilisers, Affinity Water is funding a network of Sencrop weather stations that measure real time and anticipated rainfall as well as wind speeds.
Fast developing agri-tech, from robotic pickers to fitness trackers for cows, has the potential to make UK farms more profitable while benefiting the environment, but a new report from NFU Mutual warns that political uncertainty and worries over future government support for agriculture is holding back investment in the latest technological developments. It offers advice to farmers considering investment.