Our Week in Agri-Tech

Welcome to our latest new member Field Zero – putting farmers' needs at the heart of the innovation and discovery process (and well done for your dedication to #ATW2025!)

Plus the latest Agri-TechE newsletter landed this week, (with our latest new blog - "Is scaling is ever plain-sailing in #agritech?").

Plus excellent member meetings this week with Delytics Ltd; Prime Agriculture Llp; G's Group Fresh, AF (The AF Group); The Crown Estate and the John Innes Centre.

Thank you again to #ATW2025 partners THE MORLEY AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION, Norwich Research Park, Pixa...

How do we feel about an EU-wide framework for assessing and monitoring soils? The Council of the EU has just formally adopted a Soil Monitoring Directive, with the aim of achieving “healthy soils across Europe by 2050.” (As someone recently pointed out, 2050 will be quite the watershed year, if the many MANY aspirations are indeed achieved by then 🙂).

Anyway – given the challenge the UK has had trying to untangle the whole “healthy soils” agenda, let’s hope the EU can crack it. What do you think?

In other news:

On Monday we’re...

Friday round up from Agri-TechE is in London – this week's vlog features a re-boot of some of our activities, a host of meetings and a reminder to book your hashtag#REAP2025 and hashtag#ATW2025 tickets!

In summary:

🤝 Meeting the (very) Great and (very) Good members of the esteemed Agricultural Forum to talk all things agri-tech.

💡 An Agricultural Productivity Group meeting, excellent chairing by David Exwood and meeting his new co-chair Rachel Bailey, who will be leading agri-growth, technology and trade within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Af...

A sugar-y Friday round up from Agri-TechE, with new innovations for sugar beet production, a new policy report with all you need to know about the UK agri-food system, and welcoming two of our latest new members.

 Great catch-up with Germains Seed Technology around beneficial microbes and nutrient-rich seed coatings for sugar beet and spinach seeds - and more!

 A new report on the Future of the UK Food System by our members GK Strategy - read this and you will discover all you need to know (and we got a mention as well!). https://bit.ly...

Defence and agri-tech – shared innovations and opportunities and challenges with UK Food Valley with Lincolnshire County Council.

🌏 A great meeting with the leaders from the @Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture – a real meeting of minds!

🌿 Agreeing vehemently with CropLife UK around the regulatory environment for crop solutions

👋 Welcome to some of our latest new members:

Pangaea Biosciences (overcoming resistance to pesticides and reducing the need for surfactants)

The Fresh Partnership – expert advice to develop agri-food supply chains

OptiGene – detecting bacteria and viruses attacking crops a...

🍀 Learning how the number of tiny pores on the surface of leaves might help build drought resilience. A great day at Niab's East Malling site, hearing about the research underway into soft fruit and top fruit.

🥂 Delighting in being the UK partner for the next generation of the H.A.R.V.E.S.T. AgTech programme, - part of the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) - with The Yield Lab Institute in St. Louis, Missouri and other international ecosystem partners.

🤐 Chairing an expert panel to discuss "Innovating towards the next agricultural revolution."

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Welcome to the first podcast version of our weekly agri-tech roundup.

This week.........

🌍 Presenting at the Delta-T Devices Global Distributor Conference.

💸 Being inspired at our Focus on Finance event - and discovering there is around €414Bn in "dry powder" (uninvested funds) across Europe, and hearing from 15 fantastic hashtag#agritech start-ups. Thank you to our event sponsor Innovate UK and our exhibitors.

📅 Announcing the line-up for hashtag#AgriTechWeek2025 - it's our biggest one yet - October 20th-24th!

🛫 Going "Round the World" to Australia with AgriFutures growAG on Mond...