We’re buzzzzzing after a great week where the Agri-TechE round up is from among the apple blossom, as we’re thinking #pollination.

A line-up of tech companies walked us through not just pollination monitoring @agrisound5776 but also bird ID – and, hot news – moth ID WilderSensing, soil organic carbon monitoring @DownforceTechnologies and a new high-tech approach to mapping “species interaction networks” @newcastleuni

And we reflect on Rob Bradburne’s comments on the Land Use Framework in his role as Chief Scientist of the @EnvironmentAgencyTV

Member catch ups with @Cambridgeconsultants , @CropLifeUK , @cambridgeuniversity and @syngenta … work has started on the new BioSTaR building – their new 9,500m2, 3 storey purpose-designed facility for 21st Century bio-based research at Jealott’s Hill. £100m into UK agricultural research – cause for celebration!

Thanks to our latest Stakeholder Group cohort – great to get your views and hear your perspectives from your parts of the industry – from farming, to research, processing, investment and agronomy.

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Inspired by a field of oil seed rape to talk brassica breeding in this week's Agri-TechE Friday round-up, and marvelling at the diversity of plant species with from a common ancestor.

This week:

📣 Announcement from Elsoms Seeds about their new innovation centre

🚜 A public consultation around modernising fertiliser regulations - time to have your say if you import, manufacture, develop, sell, use, analyse or have a view about fertilisers of the future.

👋 A warm welcome to new members:

Earthbase - using their AI-Powered platform to predict and shape the success of companies in hashtag#agritech hashtag#food and hashtag#naturalcapital

The East Malling Trust - the charity funding and supporting research, innovation and education around horticulture.

🤫 Plus the next installment in our micro-learning series - protecting your secret sauce in agritech - trade secrets, trademarks and copyright with ip21 Ltd

Great catch ups across the team with Processors and Growers Research Organisation, Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), Hutchinsons and Interactive Software

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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 tackling this. Also processors, supply chain partners and networks, as well as a technology exhibition, and meet our sponsors, ADAS, Fenland Soil and Rothamsted Enterprises.

Also next week – come and learn about the secret sauce for agritech and how to protect it, with IP21, the next in our micro-learning series over the summer where we’ll be from the legal experts in our network about how the legal world is changing for agriculture with the advent of technology.

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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 importance of being human when it comes to patent protection.

🚜 Watching the "virtuous circle" of farmers and agronomists talking to innovators about their tools, tech and services via our Farmer First Innovation Group. This week's was on traceability, feat, YAGRO and Livefarmer UK.

🎥 Fame on the BBC for Agri-TechE member Messium and one of our ambassadors - Northants farmer Louise Penn following our introductions!

📈 Announcement of the new Agri-Scale programme - £13m for industrial research and experimental development to help #agritech companies get commercial. The pilot was run with MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre and it's great to see government confidence resulting in a fully fledged programme.

🫰 The AgFunder Global AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2025 has landed - what are the trends in investments into companies across the globe and what does this mean for #agritech businesses

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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 to have to be even more productive.

- The 6 month ARISE programme culminated in a UK visit for the delegates at the Norwich Research Park, Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology and WMG, University of Warwick. A great showcase of different innovation ecosystems in the UK - we wish we had time to visit all the UK has to offer.

- The Innovation Summit was hosted at Niab and featured more than 80 partnering meetings (yes, 80!) between the ARISE delegates and our community, as well as talks about cross-border funding for research, innovation and collaboration. Closing with a fantastic insight into Dyson Farming Research by Richard Meredith.....the longest post-talk queue we have ever seen of people wanting to talk to him afterwards!

Big shout out to the ARISE delegation from some excellent global institutions, including Embrapa, the Yield Lab LATAM, the Yield Lab Institute, Washington University in St Louis, Taylor Geospatial, Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre, agcenter, Universidad Austral, Tecnologico de Monterrey, CREA, as well as Agritierra and Earthbase, and Newcastle University and Harper Adams University.

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