Our Week in Agri-Tech

Do you have your ticket? Have you planned your day?How will you ensure you strike gold with the connections you'll make and the insights you'll gain? (No Shields needed). In other news…💭 Reflecting on the Autumn Budget and what it means for agri-tech innovation and farmers and growers. 📆 Save the date of Nov 26th to explore digital transformation to manage the threats to agriculture from digital and climate risks. Big thinking around digital resilience, and protecting agriculture from soil to cloud. 💷 And the new call from Defra for health soils and water for environmental sustainability will open on the 19th November. Projects of £1 – 1.5m, closing date 11th January. Now, how to fold up that robot……News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the 13th AgriTechWeek draws to a close, we look back over the Week – and its entire history going back to 2014! Plus, it’s never too early to think about Christmas lunch, and finally clarity is in sight around the UK-EU position around use of agri-chemicals and precision breeding technologies. 🗓️ Agri-Tech Week has seen over 110 farm walks, seminars, tours, workshops and mini-sympiosia delivered from across the Agri-TechE membership, both online and in-person, with over 300 BASIS Reg Ltd points allocated to farmers wanting to log their attendance as part of their Continuous Professional Development (over 500 points if you include those crazy days when our REAP conference was part of the Week). 🙏 A huge thank you to everyone who hosted an Agri-Tech Week 2026 event.......and we already have a commitment from one of our members to host an event for – (whisper it) – Agri-Tech Week 2027! 🪳 Plus a catch-up this week with Tim Lacey of Hutchinsons revealed the true extent of this year’s #insect pest problem on certain fruit and veg crops. 📣 Linked to the ag-chem challenge, clarity is in sight as the new date is revealed for the Summit between the EU and the UK (postponed from July). 😀 Finally, after years of working together, I got an in-person audience with the Marvellous Marlene Huntley, Executive Director at Horticulture Nova Scotia – plotting and planning for future closer working between our members!News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vlogging from G's Group after a Growers' Forum meeting organised by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority and chaired by Mayor Paul Bristow. What could Andy Burnham's plan for devolution innovation and #agritech in particular across the UK? And what were the pressing issues facing some of the big farming and agri-food businesses in the room? (Spoiler alert: 🚰 🚜 🔬👩‍🏫). 🌱 How breeders can unlock value capture across the entire agri-food value chain – check out the interview on the Agri-TechE website with David Coop, MD of Elsoms Seeds, ahead of the session at #REAP2026 where he’ll be speaking. REAP will also see people podcasting, and you be putting yourself in the shoes of a retailer.....how will YOU choose what produce to stock?📣 Matching supply and demand when it comes to robotics adoption in agri-food, through a national hub - with over £7m of investment. "HARVEST" is a Hub for Agri-Food Robotics, Validation, Engineering and Skills Translation and Agri-TechE is excited to be working with Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology on the knowledge exchange activities of the programme, alongside Dyson Farming, B-hive Innovations, Dynium and more (inc Dogtooth Technologies, Cranswick Farming, British Berry Growers, SAGA ROBOTICS // THORVALD, JABAS.ai, Barclays Eagle Labs and Bishop Burton College.🫣 And next week really is Agri-Tech Week - starting 19th October…….! #ATW2026News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thank you Claire Donkin and team for having us at your brilliant Peat Free Pathway event at Fountain Plants Ltd. The learnings from the discussions have been shared by Kate Brunswick and Laura Bouvet with the Agri-TechE team – clearly the transition to peat-free is neither rapid nor straightforward but your event got the industry talking together. 🚜 From fixed fee to future rights, discounted access to royalties, we had a talk by polymath plant scientist/ farmer / patent agent Andrew Tindall of HGF, who helped us navigate how farmers can be rewarded and incentivised for their input into collaborative projects and trial work such as through the ADOPT programme. 📣 Calling all innovators and farmers! Our next on-farm Demo Day will be on December 8th on the SALLE FARMS estate, focusing on AI and data interrogation. Come and bring your tech to tackle the challenges, as outlined by our host farmer Andrew Peal. Exhibition, pitching and sponsorship opportunities available. 🌱 🔬 🛜 Land use change, AI on-farm, food safety from field to fork, a farm walk, post-harvest innovations and more! Many of next week's #AgriTechWeek2026 events are sold out, but some still have availability – from Newcastle to Norwich, we have curated a suite of online and in-person agritech events for you, designed and hosted by a range of our members, including AMFRESH Group, YAGRO, University of Essex, Norwich Research Park, ADAS, University of Lincoln, British On-Farm Innovation Network (BOFIN), Newcastle University, Rothamsted Enterprises. 🚩 Have you booked your REAP ticket yet? Prices go up slightly after next week, so to get the cheaper rate, grab yours ASAP – and bursaries are available for students and farmers. Finally, some exciting news for UK agritech – featuring a ministerial visit to Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology this week… and Agri-TechE is part of it too!News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Stakeholder Group is so important to us to help shape our thinking and our future activities. Thanks to Richardson Milling UK for hosting our latest meeting, which saw really helpful input from farming, academia, agri-tech entrepreneurship and commercial innovation. The latest in our “micro-learning” series about intellectual property in agri-tech rolled off the press, courtesy of Carsten Reinhard from J A Kemp. Who knew edible fungi are also subject to Plant Variety Rights? (ICYMI catch-up via the recording in your Member Stash). Farmer-focused knowledge exchange – our Farmer First Innovation Group this month talked about crop disease management and diagnostics, featuring talks from Niab, Vivent Biosignals and Outbreak Labs. Data-driven Life Cycle Analysis – you’ve gotta measure it to manage – and report it…..also available on your Member Stash to hear from Gavin Milligan, and case studies from Ponda and Recycled Crop Nutrients A warm welcome to Soleni Systems Ltd – helping with project management of complex agri-tech innovations Also joining us this week is the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council – bringing physics, space, computational science into agri-tech (for example tracking the movements of nutrients and water through soil and even living plants). And some STOP PRESS news about funding available to help Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Food Standards Agency use engineering biology more effective – from vet vaccines to eDNA and water quality - £200k contracts up for grabs. What a week – we need a weekend now to recover from all that!News, trends, and breakthroughs shaping the future of farming, brought to you by Agri-TechE. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation for our members. We bring together forward-thinking farmers, researchers, technologists, and agri-businesses to foster collaboration and drive impactful solutions. https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.