Technology

Sprayers, apps and high tech drills were among the innovations on show at the CropTec Show. Toby Whatley reports from the event.

UK-US AgTech company Phytoform has landed a $5.7 million (£4.3m) investment led by Eniac Ventures to develop new climate resilient crops. 

Farmers are being encouraged to become more and more reliant on technologies of control such as big data, AI and biotech. But is this really a good idea? Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London, explores.

Yamaha expands range with model and options

An independent ethics body is calling on the Government to put animal welfare front and centre of new gene editing (GE) technology regulation.

The popular 6R range from John Deere has expanded with four new models offering more powerful four cylinders units and six cylinder tractors aimed at greater on-road use. The range now covers 14 models  from 110hp to 250hp.

Research organisations will no longer have to go through the lengthy and expensive process of applying to Defra for permission to carry out field trials of crops produced using genome editing (GE) techniques.

A new source of food grade carbon dioxide (CO2) is due to come on stream as soon as this weekend, thanks to the initiative shown by brothers Richard and Ed Nimmons.

With a reliance on technology to optimise production processes growing on UK dairy farms, a research team at Bristol University is embarking on a project to investigate where cyber security vulnerabilities might be.

It is a sad fact that some of the most successful, life-saving agricultural advances were bitterly opposed by environmental groups when they were first created.