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Our Week in Agri-Tech

Our Week in Agri-Tech delivers your essential weekly update on agriculture and technology. From the latest agri-innovation and precision farming tools to sustainability breakthroughs and agtech startup news, we cover the trends shaping the future of farming. Stay informed with expert insights, industry developments, and key stories driving the agri-tech revolution. Perfect for farmers, agtech professionals, and anyone interested in the future of food and farming. Hosted on Acast. See

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3:05

Pond Dipping and Maginifying Life

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/04/10

Ending our week at Agri-TechE with a spot of pond-dipping – and reflecting on why we need technology to monitor and manage Nature at scale.Measuring pollination, soil health, water quality, species diversity…..and how to make the return on investment, we’ll be discussing all this and more at our event on 28th April hosted by Rothamsted.No wellies or test tubes needed – and certainly no magnifying lenses, but we will be hearing from major UK farming businesses and landowners as to how they are

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3:55

New Members and Nature

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/04/02

Friday round up is from Agri-TechE Towers (too cold and windy to be outside today!). This week: - Introducing some of our latest new members: Livefarmer UK - farm management software to help manage crops and assets, and supporting your audit needs. GIS-Point ltd. - harnessing spatial data for analytics, monitoring and precision application. Pennine Analytical Laboratories Ltd. - measuring the composition of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen, and levels of proteins and

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5:28

A windy report from the Fens; 27 March 2026

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/03/30

Some tractor action and a cameo appearance by some roe deer in this week's Agri-TechE round-up.This week:💡 Being inspired by the University of Reading AgriFood Futures strategy - a multi-disciplinary systems approach to agri-food, from land management to consumer and health, via crop and livestock research, teaching and real-world farming.💻 Bringing Artificial Intelligence into #agritech - Marks & Clerk experts talk us through the legal implications of liabilities, regulatory evolution and the

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2:47

UK Land Use Framework Launched

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/03/20

Friday round up from Agri-TechE - in a week that has seen the launch of the UK’s Land Use Framework and our hosting of the big ARISE programme delegates from North and South America.This week:- The Farming Minister was at the University of Reading to talk about the report around land use for food production, nature recovery, housing, energy production, communities and amenities. Good to see a focus on domestic food production but the "More With Less" message is writ large......agriculture is going

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4:24

Are you a Plant?

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/03/17

In this week’s round-up from Agri-TechE, I reveal what I am (according to Belbin) and what we've learnt about teamwork. Also: 📣The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announcesdynamic alignmentof UK rules with the EU – a single “rule book” on agreed areas of law. I talked with CropLife UK’s Feodora Rayner about the critical importance of good regulatory practice, science- and based policy-making and the hazard of chaos. 🤝 Meeting Steve McLean of the UK Agri-Tech Centre and

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4:40

Field-Reporting from Gorgate Farm

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/03/09

A farming-focussed round-up from Agri-TechE this week, coming from the gorgeous GORGATE LIMITED Farm, an exemplar of production plus nature recovery.In this week’s round-up:🙏 Reinforcing the important of farmer input into the innovation process through the #Geocrop project – using historical weather and crop data to identify potential fail points for the supply chain. Thank you to our farmer members who were part of the process.🫧 🪴 Our Soils and Water Demo Day will be hosted at Elveden Farms Ltd,

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Exploring the Legal Challenges of AI

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/02/27

It feels like the UK Spring has sprung – and with it we’re putting out shoots for some new and exciting activities for the month ahead.In this week’s Agri-TechE round-up:👉 Come and partner with agri-tech innovators from north and south America as the final, UK-based leg of the "ARISE" project comes together at Niab. Plus hear from Dyson Farming Research, BBSRC and Cambridge Econometrics about farmer adoption, international research collaborations and the role of innovation in the global food

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3:52

Down Under at evokeAG

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/02/20

This week's Agri-TechE round-up come from high above the Yarra river, hot (literally) from the AgriFutures evokeAG conference in Melbourne, Australia.🫶 Aligning mindsets with some utter legends in global #agritech, in particular the awesome Brendan O'Connell; Peter Wren-Hilton; Meg Lovegrove and Rob Hulme.💡 Being inspired by the keynote address by Andrew Bate, farmer and founder of SwarmFarm Robotics - check out my blog on our website with thoughts about agri-tech R & D.....(as well as E, A

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3:44

Duo Presenters (Only one to do the talking)

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/02/13

A presenting duo for this week's Agri-TechE round-up (but one of us had to do all the talking).This week:🗓️ Lots of named "days" and weeks, including the UNESCO Day of Women and Girls in Science, also National Nestbox Week and - crucially - Mind Your Head Week, raising awareness and support for mental health in our industry and farm safety. #MindYourHead Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies).🙌 Welcome to our latest new member cohort, including:🕷️ BugBug - detection of insect pests through

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3:26

Our Week in Missouri USA

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/02/06

The Agri-TechE round up from our week in St Louis, Missouri on the second stage of the ARISE programme with AgriTIERRA, Earthbase, Embrapa and the The Yield Lab Institute.This week's vlog featuring:💭 Some takeaways from the week's discussions and those who inspired our thinking.❗ Discover my new favourite mantra - is this the key to developing effective #agritech innovations.....and explaining why ecosystems are so important?🌦️ Long-range weather forecasting for farmers......do you trust this

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2:27

Member Meetings Giving Food for Thought

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/01/30

Talking water and some important bedtime reading in this week's vlog from Agri-TechE.🌱 Always a joy to visit Elsoms Seeds - we were channelling the aura of John Craven (he filmed a recent BBC Countryfile segment in this very glasshouse!).📖 A thoughtful report from CropLife UK about the potential implications of "dynamic alignment" with the EU on UK crop production.📕 The proceedings from the event co-hosted with Syngenta around scaling and global de-risking of agri-life sciences have been

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3:15

Exploring the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/01/23

A mega week at Agri-TechE, but any week that ends with horses has to be a good one. This week's round-up (also available as a podcast in Our Week in Agri-Tech) features: 🏇 When agritech meets horse-racing 🚜 Sustainable production of crops for renewable energy, with Future Biogas 🙏 Our Stakeholder Group meeting, kindly hosted at CPI and overseen by our new Chair Helen Ferrier. 🔎 A deep dive into how to Make The Most of your Agri-TechE Membership, the online recording is available in the

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The Power of Farm Clusters

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/01/16

This week's Friday round-up from Agri-TechE from the gorgeous estate run by the SALLE FARMS COMPANY. A brilliant example of an effective farmer-cluster group, leading the charge around data sharing and innovation adoption.Also in this edition:🟢 Announcing our new Chair of the Agri-TechE Stakeholder Group🟢 There's still time to sign up for our Making The Most of Membership webinar on Weds 21st Jan - current and future members - and yes, even the lapsed ones all welcome. You'll hear about our latest

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3:17

Reporting from Oxford Farming Conference

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/01/09

What were the take-home messages of The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC)? The first Agri-TechE roundup of 2026 gives a quick overview (spoiler alert - there wasn't much #agritech). The debate was our highlight, with the motion "This House Believes Farming Will Be A One Day A Week Job in 90 Years".Mentioned in dispatches in the vlog - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary of State Emma Reynolds, Minette Batters DL, Niab, Jack A Bobo and Elliott Grant.Also:📧 Our first events

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3:23

Noble potatoes, funding to scale your business, and...

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/12/12

In this week's round-up from Agri-TechE:🥔 Speaking at CUPGRA's 36th Annual Cambridge Potato Conference and attending the gorgeous Potato Barons' Feast - from innovation management for new tech - to identifying country of origin of the celery......by taste! 💷 Funding for Scaling £100m up for grabs through Innovate UK's new programme. 🤗 Catching up with members Elveden Farms Ltd and Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), and a warm welcome to GoMicro - AI in a box to improve product quality in

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What value – and price – do we assign to Nature?

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/12/05

This week’s podcast will reveal…...The value of “nature benefits” in England in 2024 (at £37billion, it’s more than any single manufacturing sector in the UK) and why we should care about the UK’s newly-released Environment Improvement Plan. Plus Agri-TechE’s event on Nature-tech for Profit and Planet in April 2026 at Rothamsted Research in April next year. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=27311What delegates REALLY thought of REAP 2025 – and getting next year’s date

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Candid thoughts on investment, scaling, partnerships...

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/11/28

What does the UK’s #agritech community hope the Modern Industrial Strategy will deliver on the ground? This week’s Friday round-up comes from @syngenta's global R&D HQ, where we debated four potential pillars of growth – investment, scaling, partnerships and exporting. Huge thanks to Gardin, RootWave, Tropic and AgriSound for candid sharing of the importance of these pillars for the growth of their businesses. Throw in a site tour, meeting the next generation of #robodogs for crop scouting, and

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4:53

International Inspirations for UK Agriculture

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/11/21

From AI (in all its definitions) and IOT via the “AKIS” and learning from the Irish and New Zealand agri-food systems – with some big thoughts on UK horticulture.This week we discovered:The power of AI in distilling complex content – Burleigh Dodds commissions publications from world experts on topics around agri-food, including regenerative agriculture. Their AgNetZero platform enables a quality referenced interrogation across all their content. You can have a 30 day free trial to have a play.The

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3:47

“The times, they are a’changin’…….”

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/11/07

Closing the week where we’ve seen the REAP2025 conference and the community come together around the 30:50:50 Summit for innovation in agriculture – our industry is only heading one way. And we ALL need to be part of the change. Big love to everyone who was part of the REAP conference, one of our favourite reflections in the feedback was the noticeable positivity and “can-do” vibe among the farm businesses, innovators and researchers in the room. Minette Batters DL set the tone for change with

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Global Agritech in the Context of Space

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2025/10/31

We're so busy in the Agri-TechE team, this week's vlog was recorded on my way to the car from the office! We're in great shape for REAP Conference next week, last chance to register! In other news: 💻 The Agri-Tech Week event blogs are coming in and we have a short (but snazzy) video summarising the Week's events. 🛰️ Giving a talk about the state of global agritech to the team at Lacuna Space - with some great questions and discussions about the state of soils, investor trends, the role of

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