Agri-Business
Scots project gets funding to develop digital dairy tracing
A digital dairy project led by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been awarded £50,000 in seed-corn funding by UK Research...
Agri-Tech
Arable
Innovative plant health tool honoured in agri-tech awards
A ‘smart farming’ tool developed by a John Innes Centre researcher to help farmers apply fertiliser more efficiently has been...
Agri-Business
Scottish agri-tech collaboration offers alternative to random test digs
A 12-month agri-technology collaboration in the East of Scotland to trial new precision agriculture tools could offer potato growers an effective...
Agri-Business
Tech that turns CO2 into animal feed awarded £2 million government grant
Nine innovative projects that apply big data, AI and robotics to UK farming will benefit from a £24 million fund...
Agri-Business
Vet shortlisted in virtual pitch competition with gadget to identify heart disease in animals
A Scottish veterinary investigations officer has beaten strong competition from around the country with a virtual pitch for a gadget...
Agri-Business
Competition for agri-tech start-ups opens for entries
The Tesco Agri T-Jam, a start-up pitch competition held in partnership with the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, is now open...
Dairy
£350,000 robot to carry out Johne's testing for NMR
National Milk Records (NMR) has invested £350,000 in a state-of-the-art robotic machine that will be integrated into the ELISA testing...
Agri-Business
NI real-time pig software shortlisted for a digital transformation award
Innovative software designed in Northern Ireland to drive efficiency in the local pig industry has been shortlisted for a prestigious...
Agri-Business
Meet Northern Ireland’s 4 new Technology Demonstration Farms
The first four farms have been picked to form a new network of Technology Demonstration Farms across Northern Ireland aimed...
Agri-Business
Welsh agri-tech firm secures £750,000 to scale its AI technology across the UK
Aberystwyth based agri-tech firm Agxio has secured £750,000 in an investment round to support the development of its advanced data...
Rural Life
Students receive scholarship to support agri-tech goals
Two students at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) have been awarded funding through the Douglas Bomford Trust (DBT) Scholarship to...
Agri-Business
150 attend UK-based 'digital farm walk'
More than 150 people logged on to the UK’s first-ever ‘digital farm walk’. The eight-hour-long event was run on Wednesday...
Arable
Can drones now be used to spot disease earlier in crops?
Developers have launched a new mobile phone app designed to use drone imagery to pinpoint diseases such as yellow rust...
Agri-Business
LettUs Grow to accelerate construction of new vertical farms
Agri-tech firm LettUs Grow, has announced it will fast-track the building of two vertical farm modules in Bristol to help...
Agri-Business
Views sought on strategy to make NI agri-food sector the most innovative in the UK
The Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is seeking the public’s views on ambitious plans to make Northern...
Agri-Business
'Electronic nose' for sniffing out spoiled potatoes wins World Agri-Tech Pitch Day 2019
A Cambridge-based start-up which uses sensors to detect contamination in agricultural produce has beat more than 100 rivals in an...
Agri-Business
US firm invests £1.5 million in Scottish agri-tech firm
A North American agri-tech firm has invested £1.5 million in a Scottish indoor growing company to help boost its market presence....
Rural Life
UK university develops free agri-food course to inspire the next generation of scientists
British researchers have developed a new, free online agri-food course aimed to inspire 16 to 19-year-olds across Europe to study...
