“The biggest intervention people could make towards reducing their carbon footprints would not be to abandon cars, but to eat significantly less red meat”. These were the words of Professor Benton from the University of Leeds - and until recently …
“While shepherds used drones to watch their flocks by night” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, but according to FORTUNE, drones in agriculture should have taken off by now. Whether this is correct or not, drones and satellites …
Last week I attended an event in Italy to help launch a report summarising the UK’s agri-tech activity at the Milan Expo. For those who missed the Expo, it was a global exhibition which focused on how to feed the …
Just over a week ago, I headed north to Manchester to mark a significant milestone in the long and important story of Syngenta’s involvement in the UK. Syngenta is an agri-tech company – in fact, it is one the world’s …
In case you missed the Autumn Statement announcement last November, the Chancellor announced that Government is investing £68 million in three new Centres for Agricultural Innovation. As well as creating capacity in the UK to translate agricultural innovation into commercial …
I have now updated our Agri-tech Catalyst map to include details and locations for all of the Catalyst projects funded so far, including the most recent Round 4 projects. You can click here to view the map – the projects …
As the year draws to a close I am really pleased to be able to look back on a very busy and successful year in establishing the Centres for Agricultural Innovation. This progress is not only down to the hard …
Just two months ago plans to establish a few selected Centres for Agricultural Innovation (CAI) were announced, and there has been much activity throughout the summer to take these forward. Potential consortia members have been discussing priorities and developing plans …
Over the summer we have taken a number of major steps forward in establishing the Centres for Agricultural Innovation - at the end of July the prospectus was published, which was swiftly followed by the opening of the outline proposal …
When many people in the UK think of agriculture, a key cultural reference point is BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. The UK’s longest-running soap, The Archers was first broadcast in 1951 and was initially envisaged as an innovative way to …
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