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A ‘dating service for plants and microbes’ is how Peter Orrell, founder of MycoNourish, describes his company.
It is creating customised strains of mycorrhizal fungi that are tailored to suit specific crops. Its initial focus is on optimising the performance of strawberry and tomato plants by influencing specific growth traits, helping to maximise crop quality and reduce wastage.
FoodTech 500, selects international AgriFoodTech startup and scaleup companies using its unique methodology which ranks them based on their business size, digital footprint, and sustainability practices. A number of Agri-TechE members and Start-Up Showcase companies are featured.
Light Science Technologies (LST) has been awarded £503,000, by Innovate UK funding to develop an intelligent LED grow-light cloche for use within polytunnels and glasshouses.
The grow-light cloche will extend the growing season, enabling farmers to grow a wider variety of produce all year round. It will incorporate LST nurturGROW sensor and its nurturGROW luminaire, a semi-automated system for soil-based growing within polytunnels and glasshouses.
Over 70 percent of the nitrogen applied in early Spring can be lost to the air or water, says Samuel Leadbeater of Timac Agro UK. He is urging farmers to consider phased release nitrogen that will remain in the soil…
LettUs Grow, has integrated an Agile Business tariff from Octopus Energy into its Ostara management system that enables indoor farmers to adjust their plant’s growth cycles to align with lower energy costs.
Better Origin is to provide insect mini farms for generating feed for 10 egg suppliers to Wm Morrison, UK’s fourth-largest grocer.
Silal, Abu Dhabi’s new fresh food and agritech company, is to invest AED 200 million to upgrade 80 local farms. The company is talking about farming in extreme conditions at an Agri-Tech Express Event
Trials have shown baby leaf salad crops germinate a day faster following treatment with Zayndu’s ‘cold plasma’ technology which creates a powerful disinfectant with no residues.
“Farming is often at the sharp end of unpredictable weather events. Varieties that can provide growers with agronomic performance and still serve the market requirements will gradually come to the fore,” says Stephen Belcher, Principal Technical Officer of PGRO, discussing the reasons why varieties are included in the 2022 Descriptive Lists (DL) for pulse crops.
Bayer is to work with Microsoft to build a new cloud-based set of digital tools and data science solutions for use in agriculture and related industries to support sustainability across value chains.
Robotic mushroom picking, strawberry yield forecasting and new bio-based materials to drive down the carbon footprint of car manufacturing are three new spin-outs to emerge from Ceres Agri-Tech, a partnership which includes six Agri-TechE members.
Breedr has announced that it will shortly be launching a crowdfunding campaign as part of its next round of investment.
Earlier this year Breedr announced a new risk-free way to buy and sell livestock, based on lifetime animal data and weights. The Breedr live trading platform means producers can buy and sell through the free app with certainty, with a price guarantee in case of any differential in the weight of weaned calves and stores between farms. Sellers are also ensured payment within 72 hours of collection.