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  • Arable, Farmers & Agri-business, Horticulture
  • Insights

The Tech Behind Your Food: Summer Salad

The summer salad on your plate depends on far more than sunshine and soil. Discover the technologies, businesses and facilities helping shape the future of...
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  • Animal Health and Welfare, Livestock
  • Insights

LambMonitor: Turning Automated Lamb Weighing into a Commercial Reality

A working prototype is only the start. Charlie Brown from Ritchie explores how the LambMonitor project is generating independent evidence and farmer feedback through commercial...
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  • Arable, BioSolutions, Soil Health
  • News

Putting Farmers at the Centre of Smarter Nitrogen Management

This farmer-led initiative is exploring how real-time soil monitoring can help growers make more informed nutrient management decisions....
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  • Arable, Case studies, Controlled Environment Agriculture
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GyroPlant: Building the evidence to accelerate sustainable growing

GyroPlant transformed its substrate-free reusable growing system from an early-stage concept into a commercially validated technology, proving its performance with commercial growers and opening new...
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  • Funding
  • News

Agri-Tech Opportunities

Read on to find out about current funding opportunities to get support and help accelerate your business' agri-tech aspirations...
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  • Arable, Case studies, Data & Sensing, Innovation & Technology, Robotics and automation
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Earth Rover: From prototype to commercial growth

Earth Rover transformed CLAWS from a promising prototype into a commercial autonomous weeding platform, securing £2.8 million in investment, winning its first customers and building...

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  • Horticulture
  • Insights

Building confidence in agri-tech: Key reflections from Fruit Focus

At the UK Agri-Tech Center we have the pleasure of interacting and working with businesses developing exciting new technologies for horticulture—from robotics and AI to...
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  • Data & Sensing, Farmers & Agri-business, Projects
  • Insights

Robotics improve profitability and productivity for soft fruit farmers

A new collaborative project, FLEXBOT, is exploring how flexible, scalable agricultural robotics can support soft fruit farmers to improve productivity, profitability and resilience....
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  • Business Support, Case studies, Robotics and automation
  • Insights

Agri-Tech Solution Sprints helps Nimbus Agri-Tech refine its commercial strategy

The UK Agri-Tech Centre’s Agri-Tech Solution Sprint programme helped robotics start-up Nimbus Agri-Tech test the commercial viability of its technology, refine its market focus and...
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  • AI and Modelling, Arable
  • News

Better timing, better fertiliser decisions, better outcomes on farm.

Agri-tech isn’t short on data, but turning that data into something farmers can effectively use is where the real challenge lies. Messium’s journey shows how...
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  • Aquaculture, Innovation & Technology
  • News

What Aquaculture UK 2026 told us about the future of fish farming

Walking the exhibition halls at Aquaculture UK this year, one thing became immediately clear: aquaculture is entering a new phase of technological maturity. The move...
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  • Business Support, International
  • News

UK Agri-Tech Centre backs British agri-tech businesses to scale globally

The UK Agri-Tech Centre has today announced the selection of two UK agri-tech businesses, Breedr and Biotangents, to take part in the 2026 Global Growth...
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  • Arable, Biodiversity and Natural Capital, Business Support, Case studies, Collaboration & Partnership
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What’s Working in Practice: Agri-Tech and the Arable Challenge

The arable sector isn’t short of innovation. It’s under pressure to deliver—now. At Cereals this week, we had a great conversation on what actually moves...

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