Female Founder – Linda Woodford, Axichain
Female Founder Linda Woodford talks to Farm491 this International Women’s Day about Axichain who are on a mission to simplify the global supply chain. How did you come to be working in the ...
International Women’s Day – India Langley, LettUs Grow
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we have been speaking to some of our female members about the opportunities and barriers present in STEM and land based careers. India Langley – Communications ...
Digging for Innovation: Challenge Prize Winner Announced
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 ...
Digging for Innovation – Finalists Announced
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 ...
Digging for Innovation, Meet the Judge; Soil Health Expert Blog from Prof. Jenni Dungait
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 ...
Farm491 Member Blog: Looking for better crops and higher margins? Try OptiYield.
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 ...
The Digging for Innovation Challenge Prize
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 ...
Farm491 Member MagGrow Attracts $7.1m Investment for Series A Round
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 ...
New service gives farmers and food producers real time alerts about their operations
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 ...
Pivot East launched by GROW and Farm491 to bring UK and EU agrifood startups to Asia-Pacific market
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 ...