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.
Actiphage®, a rapid, accurate test for tuberculosis that detects the presence of the live mycobacteria in a sample of blood or milk, has been awarded the Innovation Award 2021 by the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
Agri-TechE is one of the partners, co-creating with ADAS, a new digital solution called Farm Performance Enhancement Platform, or Farm-PEP. The aim is to connect projects and people, providing an online community space for knowledge sharing.
Michael Ruggier Airponix discusses how a nutrient spray reduces the water requirement for CEA in arid areas.
Light Science Technologies (LST) has secured Innovate UK funding to develop an ‘all in one’ sensor for vertical farming. It will measure light, water, air, temperature, humidity, oxygen and soil to enable monitoring and control of the growing environment.
By tapping into vibrations in the hive, agri-tech start-up BeeSecure is able to listen into conversations ensuring that the bees are happy, healthy and performing well.
PheroSyn has developed a cost-effective Smart Monitoring system using the orange midge’s own communication channel: Pheromones.
The Willand Intelligent Livestock System offers the potential for methane and carbon capture.
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.”