A world-first hopping robot that can identify, map and kill weeds, and wearable cow-tech that can neutralise the greenhouse gas from cattle burps were just some of the cutting-edge agri-tech launched at REAP 2019 last week.
Agri-Tech East
Agri-Tech East is an independent business-focused cluster organisation for the East of England. It is creating a global innovation hub, to improve the international competitiveness of plant and crop-based agriculture and catalyse economic growth.
Address: The Entreprenuership Centre Hauser Forum Cambridge
Post Code: CB3 0GT
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.agritech-east.co.uk
Membership Type: Professional Individual and Corporate <5
Agri-Tech East is bringing together farmers and growers with scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs to create an innovation hub that will focus on activities where improvements in crop production, agronomy and technology can influence yields, and on-farm efficiency.To increase food production on existing farmland while minimising pressure on the environment, we need new thinking and this is driving a new agricultural revolution.The East of England is ideally positioned to pioneer agricultural innovation. It has:
- Concentration of world-class R&D in agriculture, horticulture and plant science
- Prime agricultural land – the most profitable and productive in the UK
- Innovative large-scale growers/processers
- Funding initiatives from local and national government
- Expertise in high technology and advanced engineering
Agri-Tech East is an independent business-focussed cluster organisation, created to catalyse economic growth through improving the international competitiveness of plant and crop-based agriculture. It brings together the world-leading research, development and agricultural production across eastern England, and supports the translation and adoption of new innovations across a range of disciplines (including bioscience, ICT and engineering).The priority is to improve production in the UK and globally, helping meet the challenges of food and nutritional security, adaptation to climate change, and managing limited natural resources.Agri-Tech East is the UK's first agri-tech cluster organisation. It contains the business and research power-houses of Cambridge and Norwich, and is home to highly innovative growers who manage much of the UK's most productive and profitable agricultural land.For more information about Cambridge Network please see our own Directory page.
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Tech-developers, investors, farmers, producers and others with an interest in agri-tech can discover how to get involved in the latest machine vision, AI, robotics and smart equipment at REAP 2019 (6 November).
25-10-2019
Agri-Tech East's REAP 2019 conference will bring together tech developers from different sectors and millenial farmers to discuss how the changing conversation about food systems can present mutual opportunities.
22-10-2019
Could cover crops be used to stabilise nutrients provided by digestate and improve its use as an alternative to chemical fertiliser for the following crop? An innovative farmers’ digestate project will discuss findings at an Agri-Tech East event next week ( 12 September).
04-09-2019
Sustainable food systems require a collaborative response and this is a theme for Agri-Tech Week 2019. The week will include seven events hosted by members of Agri-Tech East. Each is aimed at showcasing different ways that agri-tech is providing an innovative response to the challenges of food production in a time of environmental change and population expansion.
16-08-2019
With over 20.5 billion connected devices projected to be in use by 2020, machine-to-machine communication and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) are predicted to transform farming. An Agri-Tech East event on 15 October aims to address some of the challenges and opportunities involved with the ‘Connected Farm’.
07-08-2019
According to the World Health Organisation, “One Health” is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.
11-06-2019
Agri-Tech East’s second GROW agri-hackathon (Cambridge, 5-7 July 2019) addresses sustainability.
24-05-2019
Emerging technologies for the circular economy will be discussed at a forthcoming Agri-Tech East event.
23-05-2019
Allia Future Business Centres and Agri-Tech East team up for Future 20 incubator programme.
20-05-2019
The role of renewable energy within the farming mix is to be discussed at an Agri-Tech East meeting, ‘We’ve Got the Power; On-Farm Solutions to Energy Demands’ on 23 May, which is comparing experiences and considering new developments.
17-05-2019
Agri-Tech East has welcomed Fiona Rust to its team to help the organisation develop its events portfolio and work with its rapidly expanding membership.
29-03-2019
A new trans-Atlantic agreement, opening up international opportunities for agri-businesses and start-ups, has been launched by UK membership body Agri-Tech East and Canada’s Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority.
14-03-2019
Experts to debate applications, progress and ethics of swarm robotics at Agri-Tech East event on 25 April 2019 in Cambridge.
08-03-2019
Advances in technology, from more energy efficient LEDs to better sensors and advances in soilless cultivation, are enabling the expansion of novel farming methods, but how might controlled environment agriculture disrupt the value-chain? Agri-Tech East's 'Bringing the outside in' investigates.
19-02-2019
With advances in biotechnology, imaging and organic chemistry changing the way farmers are able to tend their crops and livestock, the UK’s latest diagnostic tests are to be discussed - many for the first time - at Agri-Tech East's Pollinator event in Cambridge on 13 February.
18-01-2019
Would working with nature relieve some of the evolutionary pressure on arable weeds and plant pests and stop them from becoming so aggressive? This is one of the areas of discussion for the Agri-Tech East Pollinator event 'Mimic, Harness or Borrow; Applying Nature’s Solutions to Agriculture' being held in Norwich next week (15th January 2019).
10-01-2019
Just one year on since the tech start-up first announced its ‘Farming as a Service’ model at REAP Conference 2017, the Small Robot Company unveiled Harry, one of three precision engineered, smart robots that could revolutionise food production and the toll big machinery takes on soil and the wider environment.
20-11-2018
By delivering a ‘triple-helix’ model for innovation – which brings together industry, research and government – Agri-Tech East is helping to facilitate the rapid growth of the agri-tech sector. Priorities for future investment in agri-tech was the theme for its fifth annual REAP conference, held yesterday (Weds) in Cambridge.
08-11-2018
Earlier this year, Agri-Tech East held one of the UK's first hackathons for farming to fast-track innovation - and the learning points, future opportunities and next steps are to be discussed at REAP 2018 in Cambridge.
29-10-2018
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