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. Register here: https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=27317

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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