To mark the 10th anniversary of Agri-TechE we’re proud to release our “Back to the Future” report, capturing insights from more than 70 contributors across our diverse membership.

Innovative farmers, researchers, tech developers, investors, and business services have reflected on a decade of technological advances and shared their visions for the years ahead.

While our contributors celebrate breakthroughs that have “changed the game,” they also identified emerging challenges, from shifting investment landscapes to regulatory hurdles alongside “calls-to-arms” for transformative industry action.

Our experts provided a rich and complex set of insights, offering a blueprint of what’s needed to sustain – and accelerate – agri-tech innovation. Our findings underscore the need for a refreshed government agri-tech strategy to build on the momentum of the past decade.

Our Back to the Future Report is just the beginning — our contributors’ insights offer a glimpse of the innovation still to come.

We invite you to explore individual submissions made via podcast and written articles. We have included each here to enable you to access their views directly and in more detail.

Listen to podcast episodes below.

They are also available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Samsung, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Or watch the videos on the YouTube playlist:

AbacusBio: Making Data-Based decisions

ADAS: Practical Implementation of Disruptive Innovation

Aethr Associates: ESG and Sustainability

The AF Group Limited: No Such Thing as a Typical Farmer

AgRecruit: Finding the Right People

Agrimetrics: Data is the Greatest Accelerant in Ag-tech Innovation

Archipelago Technology: Is Printing the Future for Agri-tech

ARU Writtle: Collaboration to Enable Change

Barenbrug: The Challenge of Futurism with Barenbrug

Ben Burgess: Leveraging Digitisation in Farm Machinery

Better Origin: Achieving the Potential of Insect Rearing

B-hive Innovations Ltd: Integrating Innovation with Existing Practices

Birkett Long: Futureproofing for Innovation

Cambridge Consultants: Cross-Cutting Technologies

CeraPhi Energy: Decarbonising Energy

Citicourt & Co: Agri-TechE Corporate Financing

City College Norwich: Mixing Old Techniques with New Technologies

Cranfield University: Be Inspired by Soils

Delta – T Devices: Environmental Sensing for Agriculture

Eden Search: Agri-TechE Recruitment

eg technology: Understanding Technology Use Cases

Elveden Estate: Putting Data to Work On-Farm

Farmable: Could agri-tech bridge the farming divide?

Frederick Hiam: Avoiding Frustration 101 when Implementing Technology

Future Biogas: Decarbonising Farm Energy

Gardin Ltd: Phenotyping Indoor Crops

Home Farm Nacton: Macro Trends on a Micro Scale

Hutchinsons: The Digitised Agronomist

Innovation Agri-TechE Group: Overcoming Barriers to TCEA Adoption: Lighting, AI, and the Path to Sustainable Farming

Institute of Agricultural Engineers: The Evolution of Farming: Precision Technology and the Role of Agricultural Engineers

Letttus Grow: Back to the Future with lettus Grow

LIC: Livestock Breeding and Improvement

Mills & Reeve: Supply Chain Management

Mishcon de Reya: Driving Innovation in Agri-Tech

MTC: Scaling Agri-TechE Adoption

National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Niab): Genetics, Agronomy and Data

PheroSyn Ltd: Pheromone-Based Integrated Pest Management

Roboscientific: Real-Time Disease Protection

RootWave: Non–Chemical Weed Control

SugaROx: Commercialising Research in Sustainable Biostimulants

Verdesian Europe & Africa: Future-ready agriculture: embracing bio-stimulants

Vitabeam: Improving Yields whilst Killing Pathogens

Wyld Networks Ltd: Harnessing the Power of Connectivity

Yagro Ltd: Shaping the Future of Farming