Technology
Agreena acquires Hummingbird for remote sensing capability
Agreena, the Danish carbon farming business, has acquired the UK agritech company Hummingbird Technologies from its administrator in a pre-pack deal. Agreena says the move will help it ensure the validity of soil carbon certificates...
Crover grain robot secures further £366,000 funding
Crover, the Edinburgh-based company behind a robotic system for monitoring and sampling grain in store, has won £366,000 in innovation funding from the Defra Farming Innovation Programme within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The...
Precision specialist for HarvestEye
B-hive, the Lincoln-based agritech company, has recruited Ed Strawson as sales and account manager for its HarvestEye root crop insights business. The appointment will help HarvestEye to grow its precision farming market exposure,...
UK to join global sustainable food coalition
The UK has signed up to the US-led Sustainable Productivity Growth Coalition (SPG). This global initiative supports the use of technology and innovation to improve agricultural productivity in an environmentally sustainable way. The...
Arla to trial DSM methane feed additive in Europe
Royal DSM’s innovative methane-reducing ruminant feed additive Bovaer is to be trialled across three European countries by milk processor Arla Foods, while Elanco Animal Health is to distribute the product in the US. Bovaer,...
Bayer acquires cereal N fixing technology
Bayer Crop Science has restructured its research partnership with the US biotechnology business Ginkgo Bioworks to help speed up progress with biological approaches to plant nitrogen optimisation, carbon sequestration and next...