Innovation
Green light for Bosch BASF Smart Farming
The global smart farming joint venture between BASF Digital Farming and Bosch has been approved by the competition and merger control authorities. The new business, equally owned by both partners, will be called Bosch BASF Smart Farming (BBSF). This formalises a...
Trinity enters the digital agriculture market
Digital agriculture company Trinity AgTech has launched the first program in a suite of software that aims to help agrifood business managers move towards a more sustainable farm and food sector. The London-based company has invested in developing its farm and...
Report calls for gene editing and feed regulation change
The development and commercial uptake of gene edited crops in the UK, simpler feed regulation and a system to measure agrifood chain sustainability are among the proposals put forward in a report on national regulatory reform. These among the 120 recommendations made...
NuFarm adds to hybrid weed control investment
Generic crop protection company Nufarm has bought an equity stake in the German agritech start-up CROP.ZONE. Late last year, the Australian multinational announced that it was collaborating with CROP.ZONE to help promote its innovative electrochemical weed control...
Cornish startup explores mealworm feed protein
A Cornish startup business has received local agri-tech funding to develop insect protein production from brewery wastes. It believes it could design substrates to provide insect feed ingredients suited to different livestock species. Entec Nutrition was established...
Queen’s Award for novel bio-insecticide
Cambridgeshire-based agricultural technology business AlphaBio Control is one of three agricultural businesses to have won Queen’s Awards this year. AlphaBio Control has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for its bio-insecticide FLiPPER....