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 ...
Graintab – the new and proven online grain marketing platform for independent insights and clear marketing advice
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 ...
Member Story – Square Mile Farms: Our Journey So Far
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 ...
Becoming a business mentor
Farm491 is a UK based leading technology incubator and innovation space focused on the future of farming and food systems. Based and owned by the Royal Agricultural University the Farm491 ...
Farm491 move AgriTech season online in response to Covid-19 restrictions
Farm491, the AgriTech incubator based at the Royal Agricultural University, has adapted its season of events exploring the future of British Farming to comply with the UK’s Covid-19 social distancing ...
What does it take to expand your business to Africa?
With the current uncertainties with COVID-19, we need to contemplate how things will change with slumped prices, lack of consumer demand and chilly economic prospects. What can we do to ...
Farm491 host season of AgriTech events exploring the future of British farming
A leading UK technology incubator organisation at the Royal Agricultural University is in the midst of their AgriTech season of events, which begun in January this year. Farm491 are hosting ...