Business Services
NIAB adds agri-tech incubator to Cambridge base
NIAB is to build an agri-tech hub at its Cambridge base to link start-up agricultural technology businesses with its wider research network. The crop research organisation has been awarded £2.5 million from The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority to...
AF Group promotes farm safety to members
The AF Group has partnered with the safety at work business Safepoint to offer its farmer members a technology-based way to improve safety on their farms. Norwich-based Techshift launched its Safepoint system a year ago, and it is now used in sectors from agriculture,...
SRUC joins global sustainability network
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has joined a network of universities across the world that are committed to sustainable, global development. It is a new member of the Global Challenges University Alliance (GCUA 2030), alongside partners in countries ranging from...
Management change at Cawood Scientific
Cawood Scientific, the UK’s largest independent supplier of analytic services to the land-based sector through brands including NRM Laboratories, Sciantec and Sci-tech, has appointed two new directors as Nigel Patrick and Linda Radnor step down from operational...
Kynetec appoints Daniel Wirth CEO of merged market research Group
Global agricultural and animal health market research specialist Kynetec has appointed Daniel Wirth as chief executive of both Kynetec and the Kleffmann Group, the German operator in this sector that it acquired last December. Stephen Hearn, who founded the business,...
Oxbury secures its banking licenses
Oxbury, the new specialist agricultural bank for the UK announced last month, has secured its licence to operate. The business will now start a pilot phase before its full launch later this year. The new bank now has approval from the Bank of England’s Prudential...