On display today at Fruit Focus 2022 at the Burleigh Dodds the brand new “Improving integrated pest management in horticulture” book. Come by stand 600 to check Burleigh Dodds range of publications! Agri-TechE

Here at Elsoms Seeds stand 706 at Fruit Focus to talk with Matt about the first strawberry varieties from seeds for winter production available for the UK market. A game changer! Agri-TechE

Such a wealth of knowledge from Tony at the Delta-T Devices stand at Fruit Focus today, where they are previewing their Celora wireless system. Swing by stand 502 for a chat with Tony about this powerful and flexible new sensor network technology! Agri-TechE

Insightful talk about a brand new IPM program conducted over two years by Bayer Crop Science UK , Agrii and Certis Belchim UK here at Fruit Focus at the National Farmers' Union tent. Agri-TechE

Silal Horticulture NS In addition to the above, we have hosted the Govenor of Missouri @GovParsonMO to discuss how #AgriTech is helping in food production & build on the relationships made from our mission to Missouri back in 2020 Missouri Partnership bit.ly/3Q9AmX7

Bringing member's together is central to what we do, enabling & catalysing innovation through collaboration. This September, member's are joining together for a work social & some healthy competition in a Salad Rig Challenge hosted by G's Fresh Wholesale bit.ly/3yFXzsR #farm24

Looking forward, we're developing connections with & learning from other sectors. Member companies come from the space, navel & finance industries who are all contributing to agri-tech. At #REAP22 hear about Amazon Web Services work in ag from our keynote. #farm24 bit.ly/3xP671p

Member's Earlham Institute have been awarded £25k from UKRI to develop tech which finds genetic markers for traits in plants. PhD Student Josh Colmer commented 'we realised how valuable it’d be to have a diagnostic tool for spotting biomarkers' Find out more bit.ly/3L4zdy9

Have you heard? Last week saw an independent review published on #automation in #Horticulture commissioned by Defra UK & co-chaired by Professor Simon Pearson Director Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) & The Rt Hon George Eustice MP. Belinda Clarke summaries findings & recommendations.

What is happening here? Member's are invited to join us on 13th September G's Fresh Wholesale for an exclusive member event where you can have a go at lettuce harvesting on a rig like the one below, as well meet the membership & discuss challenges facing the sector. bit.ly/3yFXzsR

Member News! Muddy Machines gains funding which brings hope to 2023 #asparagus harvest - The robotic platform has been designed to meet the requirements of specialty field crops and is capable of deploying a variety of #harvest tools. bit.ly/3dly8G2

…and we have lift off! AgriTech Week 2022 has begun this afternoon with an event at the Norwich Research Park Park on field application of genetic technologies. Thanks to the NRP for organising the very first Agri-TechE #AgriTechWeek2022 event!

Coffee and networking time after the first talks of #AgriTechWeek2022 here at Norwich Research Park Park. Great kick off to the event, time for some interesting chat and a panel session. Stay tuned! Agri-TechE

What an insightful panel discussion to wrap up the first of 8 events for #AgriTechWeek2022! Fantastic organisation by the Norwich Research Park Park and a great line up of speakers! Now looking forward to tomorrow event: REAP! Agri-TechE

Great turnout at the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association organised event at Mill Farm in Norfolk this sunny afternoon! Excited to see the DeLaval milking robot in action! Agri-TechE 3rd day of #AgriTechWeek2022 in full swing after this morning event at Rothamsted Research

Look at that DeLaval technology in action! Incredible the amount of data collected by this milking robots. Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association could have not organised a more fascinating display of what technology can do on farm! Agri-TechE #AgriTechWeek2022

Andrey, farm manager at tiptree walks us through their projects with Research at Essex including prediction of disease and reducing labour costs and challenges #agritechweek22

.Vishuu Mohan talking success, failure and learning from their robotics projects - strawberry identification, mushroom gripping and sandwich making all being worked on CSEE Essex #agritechweek22

Tour time here as the sun sets on #agritechweek22 - checking out the plant science and robotic research here at Essex in person!