Technology
ADM explores dairy-free whey proteins
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is partnering with a Californian start-up business to explore the large scale manufacture of dairy proteins through microbial fermentation. Berkeley-based Perfect Day, founded in 2014, has modified a strain of yeast to ferment sugars into...
read moreWheat biofertiliser from Plantworks
Plantworks has launched a new wheat specific biofertiliser product as the latest in its Smart Rotations range of micro-organism-based crop enhancers. The biofertiliser products work through a symbiosis between the plant root and two groups of micro-organisms –...
read moreHarper graduate wins Nick Bird award
Emma Tristram, a graduate from Harper Adams University, is this year’s winner of the Nick Bird Award. The perpetual trophy and a cheque for £500 is awarded to an outstanding piece of written work that uses recorded observations of an agricultural process, data...
read moreTrident to market Stratford feed rapemeal as NovaPro
The new UK rapeseed crushing plant near at Stratford-upon-Avon is now in its commissioning phase, and is expected to be fully operational from the first quarter of 2019. A branded bypass protein meal will also be available from the rapeseed meal co-product. The RCMA...
read moreAgrimetrics launches Field Explorer big data platform
Agrimetrics, the agricultural data management centre established through the coalition government’s 2013 Agri-Tech Strategy, launched its first product to industry at a seminar in London last month. The centre, which commenced operations in October 2015, is jointly...
read moreDefra allows UK GE crop trial
Defra ministers have sanctioned the UK’s first trials of a genome-edited (GE) crop at Rothamsted Research, one of the world’s early trials of this technology. The go-ahead follows advice from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) which stated:...
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