Two Cambridgeshire brothers, Matthew and Lloyd Smith from F Smith and Sons of Huntingdon, have won the 2023 Rawcliffe Bridge Award for Sustainability. Will Oliver from Swepstone Fields Farm in Leicestershire was the Sustainability...
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£5.8m teaching centre for RAU at Cirencester
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has secured £5.8m funding from the Office for Students (OfS) to build a new Land Laboratory Teaching Centre at its Cirencester campus. The facility will help train students in climate-smart,...
Lincs farmer wins BASF sustainability award
BASF has presented its inaugural Rawcliffe Bridge Award for sustainability to Colin Chappell of Gander Farm in North Lincolnshire. The award marks the 20-year anniversary of the ongoing biodiversity and advocacy work at Rawcliffe...
Collaborative support for agri-tech start-ups
Two UK agri-tech providers are collaborating to increase the facilities and support services available to potential innovators in the sector. They are Rothamsted Enterprises at the long-established agricultural research station in Hertfordshire with its own new...
UK start-up aims at insect feed protein
With the use of insect-derived protein about to be re-authorised in the EU for aquaculture feeds, a new UK business says it is ready to gear up to meet the expected demand. Multibox is a start-up business based at the Royal Agricultural University’s Farm491...
