Innovation for Growth Series: Agri-Innovation for Food Resilience There is an urgent need to transform agri-food systems towards higher levels of efficiency, resilience, inclusiveness, and sustainability. Agri-tech innovation plays an ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61336659 Chris Chavasse, the co-founder of Muddy Machines, which is trialling an autonomous asparagus-harvesting robot called Sprout, said: “There is a real risk that people anywhere in the world could ...
Cultured meat – a threat or an opportunity for UK farmers? Farming groups, scientists, and start-ups are teaming up to test how far cultured meat is a threat, or an ...
Access legal skills and expert content worth over £4k for just £750 plus the opportunity to pitch your business to leading investors in the AgriTech, FoodTech and ClimateTech spaces ...
Agrifood technology start-ups involved in the Farm491 incubation hub are beginning to think very differently about the products and service models for the future of agriculture as a result of ...
(18th October 2021) Today Muddy Machines, a UK agri-tech startup, announced that they have successfully developed a prototype robotic harvester for green asparagus, which they’ve named “Sprout”. Working closely with ...
Join Farm491 and Royal Agricultural University academics as we explore the current policy landscape, consider market trends and challenges within UK Agriculture. Over a number of weeks, leading academics will ...
Three diverse and highly accomplished entrepreneurs have joined Farm491 as business advisors to the incubation hub’s start-up companies. The trio are, serial entrepreneur, Ben Jones, co-founder of the snack-maker, Graze ...
Bristol based software development company, Natural Apptitude (a Farm491 member) are, for the second year running, supporting Butterfly Conservation’s ‘Big Butterfly Count’ through the development of an app and website ...
8th July 2021 Four major UK vertical farming companies, LettUs Grow, Digital Farming, Farm Urban and GrowStack, are collaborating to bring the benefits of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to Welsh ...