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.
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.
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.