Our Week in Agri-Tech delivers your essential weekly update on agriculture and technology. From the latest agri-innovation and precision farming tools to sustainability breakthroughs and agtech startup news, we cover the trends shaping the future of farming. Stay informed with expert insights, industry developments, and key stories driving the agri-tech revolution. Perfect for farmers, agtech professionals, and anyone interested in the future of food and farming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Going all ornamental in this week’s vlog – about a sector that is worth £1.6bn to the UK economy. This week’s round-up from Agri-TechE is from Bury Lane Farm Shop , one of the UK’s leading growers of house plants and flowers – with an awesome PYO experience. Just what we needed for our team away day and teeing us up for the second of our Strategy Days. A huge thank you to Will and your team for the tour of the huge glasshouses full of luscious houseplants - and then letting us loose among the dahlias, agapanthus, delphiniums and more... armed with a bucket and a pair of secateurs…🌸 💮 🪷 🏵️ 🌹 🌻 🌼 🌷 🪻 💐 🪴 🌱 😍 And a serious conversation about the challenges associated with production of ornamentals at scale and discovering the most environmentally-friendly growth medium we have ever seen. All very topical as the Food and Farming Partnership Board is developing the first of its Sector Growth Plans (as recommended in the Farming Profitability Review), focussing on Horticulture. 🪲 Plus important discussions with the Animal and Plant Health Agency at Sandringham Flower Show – the Agency works tirelessly to keep the UK’s plants and animals free from invasive pests and diseases. Colorado Beetle and Yellow Legged hornets were our topic of discussion, but we also touched on Xylella. There is no room for complacency, particularly with a changing climate. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
➡️ All change in the UK Government - including the Department now responsible (again) for funding science, innovation and technology. 👀 Check out our video that landed this week where I talk to Sarah Evered about farmer readiness for dynamic alignment with the EU within Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs . 💭 Big thoughts with Niall Mottram of Cambridge Consultants about a potential new funding mechanism for innovation in agri-food, inspired by the energy sector - watch this space! (and thank you Mary Nicholls for wise counsel). 💡 Having input into a new report being undertaken by The Royal Society about the future of food - between now and 2100. 🙏 Massive thanks to Louise Border and James FRY for offering the gorgeous Mills & Reeve office in #Cambridge to host our Strategy Day. And you gave us food for thought in your into about quantum computing and the alignment of regulation between life sciences and agri-food..... News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bag yourself a smart grad trainee, discover how it feels to be in charge of a robot, the UK's 5 year commitment to #agritech innovation, and welcome to one of our new members – this week’s round-up from Agri-TechE . 🎓 We announce a leap forward in the way we support agritech learning and development through a new partnership with MDS Ltd . Apply to host a trainee and also be part of tech-ing up the training for the next cohort! 🫵 Have your say in the planned Engine for Dual-Use Growth and Excellence, bringing together agri-tech and defence, through some work underway by Grounded Research | Market Research and Strategic Development 📣 UK Research and Innovation releases its 5 year strategic plan – a commitment to agri-tech, with an emphasis on precision technologies and engineering biology. 💷 “If you are a farmer looking to adopt new technologies…..” – the #ADOPT programme funded by Defra and delivered by Innovate UK is here to help. And for the long(ish) term. 🤖 The AgXeed robot…..as seen on Clarkson’s Farm – remarkably responsive and light on its feet (I mean, tracks). Great day with NFU Mutual looking to the tech of tomorrow. 🚀 Agri-Tech Met Space this week at our event, great discussions across sectors…..any idea how much it costs to send a can of Coke into low earth orbit? (no Mentos needed 🧨). 🙌 Welcome to a new member SKALENE LIMITED – developing real-time, non-contact monitoring of pellets, feed, grain, seeds etc as they move through tubes and pipes to keep them flowing freely. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s round-up we announce our #REAP2026 keynote speaker and give you a heads-up about the next in our “Agri-Tech Meets…” event series. And did you bump into any of the Agri-TechE team at Fruit Focus? This week: 📣 We proudly announce Anjali Goswami FRS , Defra’s Chief Scientific Advisor as our REAP 2026 keynote speaker and the wider agenda, plus some opportunities to leverage the REAP conference for your organisation 🍎 🍓 🍐 Did you go to #FruitFocus ? We're eagerly awaiting the Sector Growth Plan for Horticulture, currently in development by the Farming and Food Partnership Board - will it bear fruit (pun intended) for the industry? 🚀 Go into (low earth) orbit with our Agri-Tech Meets...Space event - in partnership with Space East . https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=27333 News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's round-up from the Groundswell Agriculture festival. I share my reflections, pick out one of my fave talks of the show and welcome a new member in this week's vlog from Agri-TechE. ⛺ 😎 A more considered set of conversations at Groundswell this year - and Happy 10th Birthday to the Festival. Even the Secretary of State Emma Reynolds loved it! 🫶 Inspired by the session by Pasture for Life about data capture and hard metrics not always collecting and quantifying what farmers instinctively see, sense and feel. "A lack of data doesn't necessarily mean that something isn't true." A nice segue into the theme for our own #REAP2026 conference in November! 🫵 Lots of talk about the ADOPT programme (FYI Chris Lyons is your Go-To Person at Innovate UK about all things ADOPT) - this really is the way for farmers to de-risk their decisions to embrace new innovation. Great session chaired by Tom MacMillan with Lindsay Roome, Simon Pearson MBE and Bryony Gittins. 🪟 Window 1 opened of the new Sustainable Farming Incentive round. Brace yourself for the mad scramble! 📣 Welcome to a new member BionemaUk Group Limited - Groundswell was a perfect setting for the discussions about the technologies they develop and manufacture for biocontrol in agriculture..... Plus we recorded some podcasts and did some filming which we'll be dropping over the next few weeks, but special thanks to: David Linton | Cristóbal Uauy | Sarah Evered | Russell Batten | Louise Penn Also a shout out to the amazing little Agri-TechE team - Kate Brunswick | Becky Dodds | Kristina Kalinina | Deryn Gant | Sophie Butler | Laura Bouvet News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lots of Defra news to share, plus we talk about trade-offs around global food security, and consider if high-input agriculture still make sense. Plus we welcome some of our latest new members. This week in the Agri-TechE round-up: 📣 Defra’s been busy this week. The Farming Roadmap has landed, and we discover what the Government thinks about the 2025 Farming Profitability Review as it releases its official response. Plus £53m more investment in the Farming Innovation Partnership. 💭 Global food security is more than a multi-disciplinary challenge – the discussions being led within the University of Cambridge around resilient, healthy and sustainable food systems. We talked about the balance between diversity vs uniformity, availability vs sustainability, efficiency vs redundancy….where are the trade-offs? ❓ The Royal Norfolk Show 's brilliant "Great Debate" this year asks if high-input agriculture has had its day - and kicks off with a thought-provoking ice-breaker question....... 🤖 Our colleague Becky Dodds helped bring engineering and farming together - mixed with a dash of skills discussions - future at the the AgriFoRwArdS Agri-Robotics Futures Showcase in #Lincoln And welcome to some of our latest new members: 🥔 🍟 Diced, crinkled, curly or straight? We welcome global potato and fries grower and processor, Lamb Weston . 💡 🪴 Control your lighting and energy in glasshouses using wireless mesh – like a smart remote control and health tracker for greenhouse lights, with NETVION . 📊 🚜 A global public record for farm evidence is being built by Proof - working across enterprises, seasons, systems and outcomes. Starting with #biologicals and #biostimulants in #arable agriculture. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rounding up the Agri-TechE week on farm, courtesy of Home Farm Nacton – the 43rd Demonstrator Farm for LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) . Also this week: - Applications open for early stage #agritech ventures to present at our Focus on Finance event (Sept 17th – all welcome). - All eyes looking to Groundswell Agriculture – we chat to two of our members as they make their final preparations for next week’s Regenerative Ag Festival – we’ll be there, come and see us on stand M24. - Talking financial resilience through cyber security with other business founders thanks to EY . Yikes. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hazel Alpaca (newly-shorn) and I are here to tell you about Cereals, the Festival of Fresh, the next in our “Agri-Tech Meets…” series, plus the Big Announcement that UK farmers have been awaiting. This week from Agri-TechE: 🕳️ My learnings from the Niab soil hole at Cereals Event (and thank you David Clarke for a great explanation about "plate-y" limestone and following the wormholes). 💭 A mantra for #agritech start-ups - when you have great tech but are innovating in a crowded field. 🥗 From Cereals – to fresh produce, with the Festival of Fresh hosted by G's Group. Audit process streamlining, the rise of the robots – and a discussion about Ultra Processed Foods (link to the public dialogue report in the comments below). 🚀 Agri-Tech Meets… SPACE in the next in our series of exploring the interfaces between sectors. 📉 The budget for the next phase of the Sustainable Farming Incentive has been announced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs… is it going to be enough? (answers on a postcard). Also great catch-ups with Steve McLean from the UK Agri-Tech Centre, and a very valuable meeting of the Agriculture Sector Group supporting Innovate UK Business Connect. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Forecasting the weather, crop performance and pest and disease outbreaks has been peppered with rhyming slogans and old wives’ tales (DM me to discover the one about the right time to drill sugar beet - too rude for the vlog!). This week the Agri-TechE round-up is from a sugar beet field, talking about the top tech being used by British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) to bring some science to the slogans, using AI and smart traps to detect and predict beet moth and Cerospera (leaf spot). Also this week: 🖱️ Working alongside Apple and IBM as part of the University of East Anglia School of Computing Sciences Industry Advisory Board – what does our sector need for new computing graduates to be “Employment Ready?” 🛜 An opportunity to learn about the private 5G network trial connecting up smart devices across an entire farming estate in Gloucestershire – join the Open Day where we are partnering with Overbury Enterprises. ☣️ Chemical risk management through software as a service – learning more about farmer and agronomist empowerment (within regulatory rules) from Kate Bromfield. 💷 The funding ceiling for the farmer-led ADOPT R&D grants has gone up to £200,000. Bigger projects.....more farmers involved! Well done, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Innovate UK for listening and adapting. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We’ve all wilted and dried out in the UK heatwave this week… imagine the impact on those growing high value, short-season crops such as #peonies? How much of their marketable crop was a peony grower left with this week? Answer in the video….. 👏 Big thanks to the team at Niab for a great event, where we talked precision breeding, and learning how crop #genetics might influence the microbial communities living around plant roots, and airborne detection of yellow rust. 🧬 Learning what a pangenome is and why understanding the one for wheat can unlock greater breeding insights, thanks to the work underway by Rachel Rusholme Pilcher at the Earlham Institute. 🦠 With the rise of microbial crop products, what are the rules about patenting #biologicals? Ian MacLeod of J A Kemp is on hand to guide you through it. 📣 The next in the series of #AgriChat has landed, where I discuss the importance of an independent national capability around spray technology research and validation with Philip Carpenter of DE SANGOSSE . 🗞️ And a newsletter landed - did you receive yours/ We had lots of policy updates in this one! News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Opening this week’s round-up with apologies to Gerry Rafferty (and to anyone too young to appreciate the appalling pastiche of a 1970s pop sone). This week: ❓ Are we a "Well-Adapted UK" when it comes to climate risk? The 4th independent review landed this week with some stern recommendations as to how Government should support farmers as their farming models evolve. #citrus and #chickpea, anyone? 🙏 A big thank you to all involved in our "Introduction to Agri-tech" event, not least Agrii for hosting us, and the British On-Farm Innovation Network (BOFIN) and GK Strategy for their support. 👋 A warm welcome to three of our latest new members: Map My Crop an on-farm and supply chain platform to help manage multiple crops, platforms and on-farm interventions - AND help you calculate your ROI. Roboverse Reply UK - cracking the inter-operability challenge around drones and robots from different manufacturers. Astell Bio (by Astell Scientific Ltd.) - safe decontamination of effluent, using heat and pressure. And I learn more about the 5-year transformation plan underway at Rothamsted Research News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Agri-TechE round-up features our discussions on crop health solutions, a new UK offering for on-farm R&D and we’ve entered the world of podcasts. And you’ll learn what the Medici Effect is and why it’s important for #agritech . 🚜 Our first on-farm “Demo-Day” – showcasing technology solutions for soils and water management at Elveden Farms Ltd 📣 We launched Season 2 of our #AgriChat podcast! First episode is “SPS101” with CropLife UK , to coincide with this week's Kings Speech – “it’s more than a trade deal – it’s a negotiation of GB’s agricultural policy.” (Find it wherever you get your podcasts, as they say!) Two more podcasts recorded this week, including with DE SANGOSSE with MD Philip Carpenter sharing his views on the critical importance of retaining UK national capability around researching and validating spray technologies. Watch this space. 🙌 Attending the opening of the very inspiring Dyson Farming Research Centre – check out the story and interview with MD Daniel Cross on our website. A new national resource to test, trial and validate new tech on farm and at scale. 💪 Keeping crops healthy with use of biology with chemistry – we talk to Mark Waltham , CEO of Certis Belchim about prioritising plant health for resilience. 🗣️ Discussing the State of the Nation – and beyond – with Bayer ’s UK MD, Kate Connors . ⚡ Growing bioenergy feedstocks in the most regenerative way possible - at the Agricultural Advisory Board of Future Biogas ❗ And don’t forget the “Introduction to Agri-tech” event at Throw’s Farm next week, kindly hosted by Agrii . R egister here: https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=27317 News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Friday round up from Agri-TechE next to the lions in Trafalgar Square – not quite #agritech This week we’ve been out an about a lot…. - You can take the woman out of the lab, (and wait X0 years!) but you can’t take the lab out of the woman! Grace O Gorman and I did a double act on all things #agritech at the London Lab Live event at the Excel. - Continuing the lab theme – last night was the lovely Royal Society’s annual “Lab to Riches” dinner, our annual get together as part of being on the RS Science, Industry and Translation committee. - Taking our Early Career Innovators cohort to Fischer Farms to see soil-less, controlled environment growing in action. - Check out this month’s Member Spotlight – MTC who, with WMG, are delivering the £13M AgriScale programme and we share their thoughts about this exciting programme. (And if you want advice on whether this is the right scheme for you, Tatton Consulting is giving a free session to Agri-TechE members). - Speaking of our members, welcome to two of our latest new joiners: o DexLab Consulting – helping farmers navigate the transition to using AI in your business o Pollinatework – using their “Sensibee” camera technology and computer vision to identify beneficial and pest insects - We’ve had lovely feedback about our new Agri-Tech Extracts which lands in members’ Inboxes on a Friday - a 1 min read of what’s hot in the sector this week. Today’s was a goodie, if we say so ourselves! News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We’re buzzzzzing after a great week where the Agri-TechE round up is from among the apple blossom, as we’re thinking #pollination. A line-up of tech companies walked us through not just pollination monitoring @agrisound5776 but also bird ID – and, hot news – moth ID WilderSensing, soil organic carbon monitoring @DownforceTechnologies and a new high-tech approach to mapping “species interaction networks” @newcastleuni And we reflect on Rob Bradburne’s comments on the Land Use Framework in his role as Chief Scientist of the @EnvironmentAgencyTV Member catch ups with @Cambridgeconsultants , @CropLifeUK , @cambridgeuniversity and @syngenta … work has started on the new BioSTaR building – their new 9,500m2, 3 storey purpose-designed facility for 21st Century bio-based research at Jealott’s Hill. £100m into UK agricultural research – cause for celebration! Thanks to our latest Stakeholder Group cohort – great to get your views and hear your perspectives from your parts of the industry – from farming, to research, processing, investment and agronomy. Hope you enjoyed this week’s Evolve newsletter - if you don’t receive it and would like to you can sign up here: https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/civicrm/profile/create/?gid=32&reset=1 News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a lovely peas-ful field for this week’s Agri-TechE round up – but with the added jeopardy of a gas banger poised to go off behind me any moment….. This week: 🫛 Excited about the new Pulse Performance Network being developed by Processors and Growers Research Organisation - find out more Cereals Event in June. 🗣️ What does the move to #RegenerativeAgriculture mean for R&D, future collaborations and how to deliver those activities at scale? An energetic panel discussion with UK and US agri-leaders from Niab , Bayer and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center . We debate this as part of the St Louis mission to the UK. (And huge congrats to SugaROx on being selected for the The Yield Lab Institute 's flagship H.A.R.V.E.S.T. programme). 🥂 Happy Anniversary AbacusBio – a major milestone for your business! Loads of member meets, reflecting the diversity across our network and all across the UK and internationally, ranging from: 💷 Investors - always insightful to catch up with CAMBRIDGE AGRITECH LIMITED 🎓 Teaching, education and research, with Harper Adams University 🚜 Farming - always insightful to meet with the Crown Point Estate 📋🪴 Policy, R&D and advice - ADAS as the independent voice for the industry. 💻 Technology - brilliant to hear the progress of Glaia and Hyperplan Our upcoming events: The Productive Landscape: NatureTech for Profit and Planet Demo Day - Soils and Water Management Introduction to Agri-Tech News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Inspired by a field of oil seed rape to talk brassica breeding in this week's Agri-TechE Friday round-up, and marvelling at the diversity of plant species with from a common ancestor. This week: 📣 Announcement from Elsoms Seeds about their new innovation centre 🚜 A public consultation around modernising fertiliser regulations - time to have your say if you import, manufacture, develop, sell, use, analyse or have a view about fertilisers of the future. 👋 A warm welcome to new members: Earthbase - using their AI-Powered platform to predict and shape the success of companies in hashtag#agritech hashtag#food and hashtag#naturalcapital The East Malling Trust - the charity funding and supporting research, innovation and education around horticulture. 🤫 Plus the next installment in our micro-learning series - protecting your secret sauce in agritech - trade secrets, trademarks and copyright with ip21 Ltd Great catch ups across the team with Processors and Growers Research Organisation , Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) , Hutchinsons and Interactive Software News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ending our week at Agri-TechE with a spot of pond-dipping – and reflecting on why we need technology to monitor and manage Nature at scale. Measuring pollination, soil health, water quality, species diversity…..and how to make the return on investment, we’ll be discussing all this and more at our event on 28th April hosted by Rothamsted. No wellies or test tubes needed – and certainly no magnifying lenses, but we will be hearing from major UK farming businesses and landowners as to how they are tackling this. Also processors, supply chain partners and networks, as well as a technology exhibition, and meet our sponsors, ADAS, Fenland Soil and Rothamsted Enterprises. Also next week – come and learn about the secret sauce for agritech and how to protect it, with IP21, the next in our micro-learning series over the summer where we’ll be from the legal experts in our network about how the legal world is changing for agriculture with the advent of technology. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Friday round up is from Agri-TechE Towers (too cold and windy to be outside today!). This week: - Introducing some of our latest new members: Livefarmer UK - farm management software to help manage crops and assets, and supporting your audit needs. GIS-Point ltd. - harnessing spatial data for analytics, monitoring and precision application. Pennine Analytical Laboratories Ltd. - measuring the composition of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen, and levels of proteins and calories etc in a whole range of materials Number 8 bio - for cattle farmers wanting an increase in FCR of their animals and to reduce their GHG emissions - a novel molecule encapsulated in a slow-release dissolvable bolus. 🐞 🐝 🪶 🚰 🌳 FIVE BASIS Reg Ltd points up for grabs for delegates attending our "Productive Landscape: Nature-tech for Profit and Planet" event (April 28th). Hear from the Environment Agency Chief Scientist, as well as speakers from G's Group , The Crown Estate , LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) , Cambridge Consultants , the NFU (National Farmers' Union) , Brown&Co LLP , Lloyds Banking Group and more - plus a host of tech companies. Thank you so much to Fenland SOIL , ADAS and Rothamsted Enterprises for supporting the conference. 📣 The UK's first Precision Bred Organism marketing notice has been issued.....a new barley developed by Rothamsted Research using gene-editing techniques moves a step closer to commercial deployment. And who do you / we know who met the King this week to receive their well-deserved Gong?! Huge congratulations to Simon Pearson MBE - you are a great ambassador for UK hashtag#agritech . Mentioned or met this week: Marcus Harrison | Thomas Williams | Peter Eastmond | Freddie Theodoulou | Julius Joel | Diane Mitchell | David Webster | Charlie Curtis PSAg , CSRM | Isobel Ashbey | Casey Woodward | Geoff Horrell | George Caterer | Darren Evans | Ben Makowiecki | News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Some tractor action and a cameo appearance by some roe deer in this week's Agri-TechE round-up. This week: 💡 Being inspired by the University of Reading AgriFood Futures strategy - a multi-disciplinary systems approach to agri-food, from land management to consumer and health, via crop and livestock research, teaching and real-world farming. 💻 Bringing Artificial Intelligence into #agritech - Marks & Clerk experts talk us through the legal implications of liabilities, regulatory evolution and the importance of being human when it comes to patent protection. 🚜 Watching the "virtuous circle" of farmers and agronomists talking to innovators about their tools, tech and services via our Farmer First Innovation Group. This week's was on traceability, feat, YAGRO and Livefarmer UK . 🎥 Fame on the BBC for Agri-TechE member Messium and one of our ambassadors - Northants farmer Louise Penn following our introductions! 📈 Announcement of the new Agri-Scale programme - £13m for industrial research and experimental development to help #agritech companies get commercial. The pilot was run with MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre and it's great to see government confidence resulting in a fully fledged programme. 🫰 The AgFunder Global AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2025 has landed - what are the trends in investments into companies across the globe and what does this mean for #agritech businesses News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Friday round up from Agri-TechE - in a week that has seen the launch of the UK’s Land Use Framework and our hosting of the big ARISE programme delegates from North and South America. This week: - The Farming Minister was at the University of Reading to talk about the report around land use for food production, nature recovery, housing, energy production, communities and amenities. Good to see a focus on domestic food production but the "More With Less" message is writ large......agriculture is going to have to be even more productive. - The 6 month ARISE programme culminated in a UK visit for the delegates at the Norwich Research Park , Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology and WMG, University of Warwick . A great showcase of different innovation ecosystems in the UK - we wish we had time to visit all the UK has to offer. - The Innovation Summit was hosted at Niab and featured more than 80 partnering meetings (yes, 80!) between the ARISE delegates and our community, as well as talks about cross-border funding for research, innovation and collaboration. Closing with a fantastic insight into Dyson Farming Research by Richard Meredith .....the longest post-talk queue we have ever seen of people wanting to talk to him afterwards! Big shout out to the ARISE delegation from some excellent global institutions, including Embrapa, the Yield Lab LATAM, the Yield Lab Institute, Washington University in St Louis, Taylor Geospatial, Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre, agcenter, Universidad Austral, Tecnologico de Monterrey, CREA, as well as Agritierra and Earthbase, and Newcastle University and Harper Adams University. News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
