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.
Vet Robert Price-Jones comments in a BBC interview that the blood test Actiphage offers the potential for eradicating bovine TB from the farm: “Early identification of animals at risk of bovine TB enables effective disease management and control.”
Small Robot Company in partnership with RootWave has developed ‘Dick’ the world’s first non-chemical weeding robot that uses electricity and AI to zap individual weeds in the field. Early field trials of the prototype will start in 2020.
Fafaza, is a precision crop spraying technology that performs plant recognition and individual treatment in real time. It has been developed by innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants.
To understand which flowers are important for bees, scientists from the Earlham Institute (EI), with the University of East Anglia (UEA), have developed a new method to rapidly identify the sources of bee pollen.
Asian soybean rust has a devastating impact on soybean, an internationally important crop with 346 million tonnes produced globally. Now its complex genome has been assembled providing an opportunity for new types of control.
Results from long-running agricultural experiments are being made openly available to other scientists by the Global Long-Term Agricultural Experiment Network to support greater collaboration between projects and foster the discovery of new insights.
At the cutting-edge of bioscience, Earlham Institute is inviting those with a business idea or project that needs scientific expertise to their next EI Innovate event on 13 November 2019
INNO-VEG is focussed on vegetables and potatoes it aims to facilitate the wider use of crop sensing technology in field trials, there will be a chance to talk to the UK lead partner ADAS at REAP
#BFA19 Finalist: Hummingbird Technologies, featured in the REAP 2016 Start-up Showcase, has just announced it has attracted investment from BASF and TELUS Ventures. Hummingbird Technologies analyses images of fields captured by aerial vehicles including drones and satellites to provide insights for precision agriculture.
xarvio’s Field Manager delivers field specific crop management recommendations to a smart-phone – it will be shown for the first time at REAP 2019
#BFA19 finalist Drone Ag launches crowdfunding campaign to further develop their Skippy Scout app, which automates crop scouting using just your phone and a drone
#BFA19 finalist: Breedr’s precision livestock app is underpinned by analysis from six years of real-world farm records. Breedr founder, Ian Wheal, discussed the results at the European Animal AgTech Innovation Summit this week.