• Login/Join
    • Login
    • Join Agri-TechE
Menu
  • Login/Join
    • Login
    • Join Agri-TechE
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • International
    • Agri-Tech Briefings
      • Controlled Environment Agriculture
      • Gene editing consultation – what does it mean for agri-tech?
      • Controlling light in farming
      • What is ELMs? Agri-Tech to support Environmental Land Management
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Agri-TechE activities, conferences and missions for 2022
    • REAP Conference 2021
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Monthly Musings
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Young Innovators’ Forum
    • Funding Latest
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Become an Agri-TechE Member
    • Member Testimonials
    • Increasing your profile
    • Agri-TechE Member Drop-In
  • Contact Us
Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • International
    • Agri-Tech Briefings
      • Controlled Environment Agriculture
      • Gene editing consultation – what does it mean for agri-tech?
      • Controlling light in farming
      • What is ELMs? Agri-Tech to support Environmental Land Management
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Agri-TechE activities, conferences and missions for 2022
    • REAP Conference 2021
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Monthly Musings
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Young Innovators’ Forum
    • Funding Latest
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Become an Agri-TechE Member
    • Member Testimonials
    • Increasing your profile
    • Agri-TechE Member Drop-In
  • Contact Us

Search

More results…

Generic filters
Exact matches only

  • Young Innovators' Forum
  • Agri-Tech East’s Young Innovators’ Forum, Young Innovators Forum

Young Innovators’ Forum: AgriScience Conference 2018

  • March 29, 2018
  • 2:30 pm

Last week we held the second Young Innovators’ Forum AgriScience Conference, with help from NIAB. Once again descending on The Morley Agricultural Foundation, 40 innovators came to learn more about new agri-tech technologies and communication.

Susie Emmett of Green Shoots Productions, kicked things off with a lively presentation focusing on the communication methods we can use in the agri-tech industry, and how to use them better! To paraphrase an excellent quote, all the work going into agri-tech will count for nothing if it’s not communicated well. We covered some of the ways to communicate better visually – both through film and photography. (You can apply for her fully funded course here)

Emily Smith from AHDB was up next talking up the importance of communication between farm and science. She framed her talk with the fact that UK productivity rates are down compared to other countries – is this primarily because research takes so long to get from the lab to the farm in the UK?

Easton and Otley College students hosted a debate on whether Brexit will affect global commodity prices. Both sides of the agreement were very credible and I found myself agreeing with one, then the other! The vote was tight but we were persuaded that it would affect prices…it will be interesting in time to see who was right!

The afternoon saw us rotate round 3 different workshops. My group started with the quantifying soil health session – looking at earthworms with John Innes Centre, and mycorrhizae with NIAB – really putting the field into field lab! In brief, we discovered there is a lot more going on under the soil than perhaps we realise (who knew there are 3 kinds of worms!?). I’d wholly recommend finding out more.

fieldmargin, app developers, had us coming up with ideas for apps, and then how to narrow that down to the basis of what you need. The topics we came up with were really diverse – anything from monitoring chemical store levels to anonymous alert system if you’re worried about a local farmer. It was interesting to see what doesn’t already exist that you would think does, and also gratifying to know fieldmargin are working on some them already – goes to show the value of end user input during development!

Finally, Garford Farm Machinery gave us a rundown of their mechanical weeding machines, in a bid to reduce pesticide use. Using machinery can bring aeration benefits, it’s less labour intensive and will of course help in the face of prospective chemical restriction – but it is slower and needs an identifiable row in order to work.

That’s just a super quick run through of what we covered during the day. What really came through was how important communication is to the success of the industry. As Young Innovators we have the chance to make the industry more open, more transparent and enable that two way flow of information. If you’d like any information on any of the speakers or the topics of the day, please email becky.dodds@agri-tech-e.co.uk

Share

Share on facebook
Share on twitter
Share on linkedin
Related Posts
  • Young Innovators’ Forum May 2021 – Newsletter
  • Interactive conference for inspiring innovators
  • YIF Newsletter – February 2021
  • YIF Newsletter – September 2021
  • Blog: Bx Technologies
Archives

Agri-TechE on Twitter

Tweets by AgriTechE 

Agri-TechE on Facebook

Agri-TechE

MORE INFORMATION

  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Menu
  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Twitter Facebook Youtube Linkedin Instagram

© Agri-TechE 2022

Site design by Out of House