“Agricultural subsidises take many forms, but today in the US at least, most of our subsidies discourage good stewardship of soil health,” says David R Montgomery, MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington and keynote speaker at the Agri-TechE REAP conference 10th November 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.
As the cost of technology for sensing and monitoring falls and powerful computing power becoming more available Smart Farming becomes closer to the field. New and emerging technologies on show in the Innovation Hub
The mood at the 2019 Oxford Farming Conference clearly reflected the need to face and embrace change but at what scale and what cost?
There is greater consensus over Sustainable Intensification practices by farmers than originally thought, offering indicators to policymakers
It might be considered a nuisance by pond owners, but ‘duckweed’ offers a high protein alternative to soy that can be grown in arid countries with very little water. Start-up company DryGro is set to disrupt a huge global market, with a growing system for Lemnoideae that promises to revolutionise animal production in sub-Saharan countries.
“We know as arable farmers that we need to do something to improve soil health and structure and the inclusion of livestock in the rotation
The theme of REAP 2017 is “Today’s Knowledge Meets Tomorrow’s Technology,” and biology is at the forefront with our keynote speaker focusing on no-till agriculture.
“M&S is looking at ways to increase the nutritional value of food, particularly by increasing levels of the vitamins and minerals found in vegetables, that
The Agri-Tech East cluster is generating new ideas that will boost the profitability, productivity and sustainability of agriculture. This is captured in a report From Grass Roots
