Upcoming Events

Remote sensing and monitoring, communications technology and automation are being deployed to help make agriculture a safer industry. Hear about some of the latest tools to help improve the safety track record around managing livestock and arable, as well as in controlled environment conditions. We’ll be highlighting some of the latest new products, tools and services, as well as hearing from farmers what they’d like to see to make their working lives even safer.

Itaka International will be sharing how their successful introduction of natural products is improving plant resistance is innovative vegetable farming. Through reviewing crop production systems Itaka aim to reduce predisposition to common threats on vegetable crops while also decreasing the dependence to agrochemicals.

Raw data has no value – it’s the answers hidden in the data that hold value. Using case studies, Dan Jolly, YAGRO Co-Founder, will explore the value of data and how it can be put to work to help help farms yield the best returns and optimise farm productivity.

We want to help you navigate the current agri-tech and agri-food grant funding landscape, find out about new opportunities and – importantly – meet new people who can help!

Hear about how a new test called Actiphage - that uses novel phage technology - offers a new approach to identifying carriers of the disease; the validation process and how improved disease management could eradicate not just bovine TB but also the wasting disease Johne’s.

This unique one-day introduction provides an overview of agri-industries, the challenges faced and the opportunities. It is aimed at giving useful insights to those new to the sector and to people from other industries.