Agri-TechE Member News and Views

Farmable productivity app for fruit growers

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.

16/03/2020

YAGRO launches new farm insurance delivering 30% savings

YAGRO and Scrutton Bland launch new insurance product to help improve farmers’ bottom line, combating over-payments and inaccurate cover.

10/03/2020

De-risking weather – Stable Group provides unique price insurance

Stable was founded when Richard Counsell – a farmer’s son with 15 years of experience gained from running technology businesses in Chicago, London and Melbourne

05/03/2020

Agrimetrics’ new Data Marketplace

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.”

21/02/2020

Crop17 to support development of medical cannabis

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.

17/02/2020

Sencrop networked weather stations to help improve water quality at source

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.

31/01/2020

Top tips for farmers investing in agri-tech

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.

27/01/2020