BBRO has been focussed on new approaches to mitigate the impact of withdrawal of neonicotinoid seed treatments, which has left the UK sugar beet crop exposed to the aphid-borne infection.
Innovation Insights for Circular Agriculture features 12 Agri-TechE member businesses discussing how they are working to avoid waste, utilise resources more efficiently, and make use better use of co- & by-products.
“The agri-tech innovation pipeline remains full,” comments Dr Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE, speaking about the range of agri-tech innovation demonstrated at the Royal Norfolk Show Innovation Hub, this year…
After helping farmers save their sugar beet from aphids last year, BBRO is sponsoring the Virtual Innovation Hub and sees this as an opportunity to discuss how the innovations it has pioneered can help the wider industry.
After helping farmers save their sugar beet from aphids last year, BBRO is sponsoring the Virtual Innovation Hub and sees this as an opportunity to discuss how the innovations it has pioneered can help the wider industry.
Xbeet® enrich 200, the new and improved offering from Germains Xbeet® seed treatment range, aims to help crop health, accelerate emergence, increase yield and mature plant resistance.
The Royal Norfolk Show may have been cancelled this year but we are keen that the ‘show must go on’ and are recreating the Innovation Hub experience virtually. It will offer an opportunity to drop in remotely to hear a topical discussion and discuss an emerging technology or a challenge directly with a technologist or researcher.
Collaborative research to combat pathogens was the theme of the first event of Agri-Tech Week 2019, which was held at the Norwich Research Park (NRP). Disease resistance, understanding pathogen life-cycles and alternatives to antibiotics were some of the themes.
Sugar beet is grown in East Anglia and East Midlands and is used as an ingredient in foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals with co-products used for
It is time for change – acting fast and making minimal interventions can reduce the use of inputs such as water, fertiliser or plant protection,
A simulator for tractor training, the world’s biggest beet eater and a virtual sheep wrangler will be among the highlights of a unique Innovation Trail