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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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5:00

How do you spend £250m in 6 hours?

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/09/25

🪟 🫣 The Sustainable Farming Incentive window opened – and shut – on Tuesday….it felt a bit of a manic panic way to allocate funding to land-owners to deliver environmental land management, but let’s hope for some major impact on the ground. 🎠 The World Agri-Tech Summit was interspersed with an evening Reception we hosted with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. The Agri-Tech Carousel format enabled companies to showcase their tech, ranging from biostimulants (SugaROx), to

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3:04

Stink Bugs and Showcasing Agritech Start-Ups

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/09/18

This week:👏 A big thanks to everyone who focused on finance with us - whether you were an investor, an early stage venture, or just came to listen and network. With fabulous keynotes which stretched our brains about the investable future of the food system, we discovered big opportunities for the new “biological intelligence” layer…. Plus 10 early stage ventures in agrifood, showcasing their solutions from frost protection to improved nutrition in peas, innovation to control cabbage stem flea

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2:45

Urban myths at the Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/09/11

👉 We’re growing the Agri-TechE team…..are you – or someone you know – our next new recruit? https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/opportunity/team-support-administrator/📣 Final call to “Focus on Finance” with us next week to learn more about different financing options to start and scale your #agritech company and hear from the latest batch of entrepreneurs. Plus SyndetAI will be helping all our start-ups identify the hot (and not-so-hot) spots in their businesses using their proprietary platform. 🔔

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5:24

More funding money, making the most of membership,...

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/09/04

More money, making the most of membership and maize…. Agri-TechE’s weekly vlog is recorded alongside (an ever-dwindling) hay store.This week:🤝 Meet the right people, increase your visibility, and grow your network and impact – we walk through how to max out your Agri-TechE membership on Tuesday 8th September at noon. Prospective members also very welcome….come and be part of the community!💷 Two new grant funds landed – the Farmer Collaboration Fund and the Small R&D Partnership competition

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4:40

A Rainbow Berry Bird Feast

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/08/28

This week we’re about birds, biologicals, the future of farm machinery and the importance of language when talking about nature and the environment. Read on…. 🪶 🍂 The berry bounty currently bursting forth in UK hedgerows awaits the winter bird visitors – but will it hold long enough to feed them in this “false autumn?” And the trade-off between the Government’s Drought Support Package for farmers and the impact on food and cover for over-wintering birds and insects. 🙂 🥱 From visions of

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3:47

Is the Drought Support Package a drop in the ocean?

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/08/21

In a week where the Government announced a Drought Support Package for farmers, we're calling anyone who wants to meet agritech start-ups…..Read on!☔ With just 1mm of rain falling in some parts of the Fens this week, we dive into the details of the new Support Package. Is it a drop in the ocean of what’s really needed?💷 Come and Focus on Finance with us on the 17th Sept, featuring start-up pitches plus a chance to learn about money available to grow your business and a state of the nation about the

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4:14

🌔 Strange celestial sights

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/08/14

☀️ 🌔 🌠 🌊 🥵 🪱 Today’s vlog standing in front a compost pile ready for incorporation – helping build soil resilience for future extreme weather. Three different members deploying three different member benefits📣 Raising the profile of their technology🤝 Bring introduced to the right people for their business needs❓ Specific tech “asks” from a fruit farmer….watch the vid to find out if you can help!Also, catching up with Bitwise Agronomy and how their AI-enabled platform (“Barbara!”) has provided

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4:14

A Drone with a View & Parched Potatoes

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/08/07

It’s all about the not-so-humble (and thirsty) spud, where we’ve been considering the science behind growing better potatoes and in a week where the UK’s first gene-edited crop gained regulatory approval. Plus money, the robotics revolution and a great opportunity for our Early Career Innovators. This week:🥔 🍟 Lamb Weston processes 200,000 tonnes of potatoes a year, a great example of supply chain partners supporting their growers to produce an even better crop. We've also been talking soil

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2:25

Dahlias & Delphiniums at Bury Lane

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/07/31

Going all ornamental in this week’s vlog – about a sector that is worth £1.6bn to the UK economy. This week’s round-up from Agri-TechE is from Bury Lane Farm Shop, one of the UK’s leading growers of house plants and flowers – with an awesome PYO experience. Just what we needed for our team away day and teeing us up for the second of our Strategy Days. A huge thank you to Will and your team for the tour of the huge glasshouses full of luscious houseplants - and then letting us loose among the

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4:09

Reshuffles in Westminster and the quandaries of quantum

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/07/24

➡️ All change in the UK Government - including the Department now responsible (again) for funding science, innovation and technology. 👀 Check out our video that landed this week where I talk to Sarah Evered about farmer readiness for dynamic alignment with the EU within Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.💭 Big thoughts with Niall Mottram of Cambridge Consultants about a potential new funding mechanism for innovation in agri-food, inspired by the energy sector - watch this space

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4:54

Space, Robotics and Defence

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/07/17

Bag yourself a smart grad trainee, discover how it feels to be in charge of a robot, the UK's 5 year commitment to #agritech innovation, and welcome to one of our new members – this week’s round-up from Agri-TechE.🎓 We announce a leap forward in the way we support agritech learning and development through a new partnership with MDS Ltd. Apply to host a trainee and also be part of tech-ing up the training for the next cohort!🫵 Have your say in the planned Engine for Dual-Use Growth and Excellence,

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4:04

How good is ‘good enough’?

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/07/10

In this week’s round-up we announce our #REAP2026 keynote speaker and give you a heads-up about the next in our “Agri-Tech Meets…” event series. And did you bump into any of the Agri-TechE team at Fruit Focus?This week:📣 We proudly announce Anjali Goswami FRS, Defra’s Chief Scientific Advisor as our REAP 2026 keynote speaker and the wider agenda, plus some opportunities to leverage the REAP conference for your organisation 🍎 🍓 🍐 Did you go to #FruitFocus? We're eagerly awaiting the Sector Growth

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2:45

Groundswell's Glorious Festival Vibes

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/07/03

This week's round-up from the Groundswell Agriculture festival. I share my reflections, pick out one of my fave talks of the show and welcome a new member in this week's vlog from Agri-TechE.⛺ 😎 A more considered set of conversations at Groundswell this year - and Happy 10th Birthday to the Festival. Even the Secretary of State Emma Reynolds loved it!🫶 Inspired by the session by Pasture for Life about data capture and hard metrics not always collecting and quantifying what farmers instinctively

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3:43

A Hot Report from the Royal Norfolk Show

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/06/26

Lots of Defra news to share, plus we talk about trade-offs around global food security, and consider if high-input agriculture still make sense. Plus we welcome some of our latest new members. This week in the Agri-TechE round-up:📣 Defra’s been busy this week. The Farming Roadmap has landed, and we discover what the Government thinks about the 2025 Farming Profitability Review as it releases its official response. Plus £53m more investment in the Farming Innovation Partnership.💭 Global food

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3:32

Celebrations at Home Farm Nacton

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/06/19

Rounding up the Agri-TechE week on farm, courtesy of Home Farm Nacton – the 43rd Demonstrator Farm for LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). Also this week: -Applications open for early stage #agritech ventures to present at our Focus on Finance event (Sept 17th – all welcome). -All eyes looking to Groundswell Agriculture – we chat to two of our members as they make their final preparations for next week’s Regenerative Ag Festival – we’ll be there, come and see us on stand M24. -Talking

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4:27

A “point of difference” not a “pointless difference”

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/06/12

Hazel Alpaca (newly-shorn) and I are here to tell you about Cereals, the Festival of Fresh, the next in our “Agri-Tech Meets…” series, plus the Big Announcement that UK farmers have been awaiting. This week from Agri-TechE:🕳️ My learnings from the Niab soil hole at Cereals Event (and thank you David Clarke for a great explanation about "plate-y" limestone and following the wormholes). 💭 A mantra for #agritech start-ups - when you have great tech but are innovating in a crowded field.🥗 From

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4:45

Oak before ash, we're in for a splash 🌦️

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/06/05

Forecasting the weather, crop performance and pest and disease outbreaks has been peppered with rhyming slogans and old wives’ tales (DM me to discover the one about the right time to drill sugar beet - too rude for the vlog!). This week the Agri-TechE round-up is from a sugar beet field, talking about the top tech being used by British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) to bring some science to the slogans, using AI and smart traps to detect and predict beet moth and Cerospera (leaf spot).Also this

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5:04

Peonies & Pangenomes

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/05/29

We’ve all wilted and dried out in the UK heatwave this week… imagine the impact on those growing high value, short-season crops such as #peonies?How much of their marketable crop was a peony grower left with this week? Answer in the video…..👏 Big thanks to the team at Niab for a great event, where we talked precision breeding, and learning how crop #genetics might influence the microbial communities living around plant roots, and airborne detection of yellow rust. 🧬 Learning what a pangenome is

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4:16

Are we a "Well-Adapted UK" when it comes to climate...

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/05/22

Opening this week’s round-up with apologies to Gerry Rafferty (and to anyone too young to appreciate the appalling pastiche of a 1970s pop sone). This week:❓ Are we a "Well-Adapted UK" when it comes to climate risk? The 4th independent review landed this week with some stern recommendations as to how Government should support farmers as their farming models evolve. #citrus and #chickpea, anyone?🙏 A big thank you to all involved in our "Introduction to Agri-tech" event, not least Agrii for hosting

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4:06

We visit the Dyson Farming Research Centre

Our Week in Agri-Tech ·

2026/05/15

The Agri-TechE round-up features our discussions on crop health solutions, a new UK offering for on-farm R&D and we’ve entered the world of podcasts. And you’ll learn what the Medici Effect is and why it’s important for #agritech.🚜 Our first on-farm “Demo-Day” – showcasing technology solutions for soils and water management at Elveden Farms Ltd📣 We launched Season 2 of our #AgriChat podcast!First episode is “SPS101” with CropLife UK, to coincide with this week's Kings Speech – “it’s more than

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