R&D
New UK chief for Kynetec
Agricultural and animal health market research bureau Kynetec has appointed Robert Bakewell as senior director of its Real Time Trackers team, responsible for delivering tracking data on the use of crop protection, seed and animal health products. He will be based at...
read moreBayer to launch ClimateFieldView digital platform in Europe
Bayer, which recently started the integration of the Monsanto business it finally acquired earlier this year, held a Future of Farming event held at its research headquarters at Monheim in Germany recently. President of Bayer Crop Science Liam Condon said the future...
read moreIGS opens vertical farming demo unit in Dundee
Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), an agri-tech startup business based at the James Hutton Institute (JHI) near Dundee, has opened an indoor vertical farming demonstration facility at the Institute. IGS was started in 2013 to bring together expertise in LED light...
read moreGrosvenor invests in AgriWebb digital platform
A UK agri-food investment fund has made an £8m investment into an Australian digital agriculture platform. The deal includes the sale of a Northern Ireland-based dairy management software business. The Wheatsheaf Group, a Grosvenor Estates company, has bought a...
read moreBeef feeding guidelines to be updated
The AHDB is to fund a review and update of the existing 25 year old beef cattle feeding systems guide, AFRC 1993, to ensure it reflects today’s genetics, practice and market requirements. It is also seeking interested companies to become involved. The AHDB Beef & Lamb...
read morePoultry researcher wins 2018 Edgar Pye award
The 2018 Edgar Pye Research Scholarship has been award to a Nottingham Trent University researcher studying non-antibiotic growth promotion in poultry. Saba Amir has won the £2,500 Scholarship to help fund his doctoral research into: ‘The effects of Prebiotics on the...
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