This week saw the culmination of RAU’s Farm491 and BASF’s Challenge Prize ‘Digging for Innovation’. The challenge posed the question; ‘Can Productivity and Biodiversity CoExist?’ and brought in a wide ...
After a great response to our ‘Digging for Innovation‘ competition, we are delighted to share with you our six finalists: Wroot Water –”I have been interested in farming growing crops ...
Soil science seeks to increase our knowledge and understanding of how soils work because our lives literally depend on it. After decades of treating soils like dirt, science is revealing ...
The 2020 growing season can, at best, be described as ‘challenging’, for many reasons, not least of which has been the global COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure it has put ...
Alongside sponsor BASF, Farm491 is delighted to announce the launch of The Digging for Innovation Challenge Prize featuring a £5000 cash award to the winner. New for 2020/21, the Challenge ...
MagGrow, an Irish agtech startup harnessing magnetism to make crop spraying more accurate and less chemically intensive, has closed its Series A round at €6 million ($7.1 million). Impact investor ...
A specialist agri-tech business based in Cornwall, has introduced a new service to give farmers and food producers access to real time alerts about their operations. With the ability to ...
GROW, Southeast Asia’s first dedicated agrifood tech accelerator, and Farm491, the agritech incubator and innovation space located at the UK’s Royal Agricultural University, are unveiling a new program to help ...
Instant access to large volumes of information has ironically made grain marketing decision making harder and farmers are none the wiser as to what they should be doing, but there is ...
Square Mile Farms: Our Journey So Far As we embark on a new chapter, we reflect on our objectives and our journey. So… here we are, finally about to launch ...