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1 week ago | 
agtechnavigator.com | Oliver Morrison |Jane Byrne
The largest agri-tech organisation in the UK conducted 122 in-depth interviews across the country to better understand what innovation and technology means to farmers. Technology adoption is the most significant change to farming practices in the last five years, according to 73% of the survey participants. Farmers are clear that they want “practical solutions that make their businesses more efficient and manageable”, the survey says.
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1 week ago | 
agtechnavigator.com | Jane Byrne |Oliver Morrison
Connecting a global community of 550 million farmers, many of whom still rely on analogue systems, to digital services is vital for transforming agriculture. “This transition would enable the collection, analysis, and impactful use of data, providing the support needed to drive meaningful change and improve agricultural practices worldwide,” says Andreas Cerdan, chief commercial officer of Dimitra.
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2 weeks ago | 
agtechnavigator.com | Jane Byrne
Netherlands-based startup Grassa has a twofold ambition: tackling the nitrogen problem while offering farmers new revenue models. By reducing excess protein in grass, the company aims to decrease emissions from cows and replace imported soy, thereby preventing nitrogen imports. Grassa says its technology contributes to reducing nitrogen emissions in two ways. First, it lowers the protein content in grass, leading to reduced nitrogen emissions from cows.
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3 weeks ago | 
agtechnavigator.com | Amanda Lim |Oliver Morrison |Jane Byrne
JAH Cultura’s proprietary ceramic alloy, called Unitatem CULTURA, has been shown to enhance water, soil, and cell growth. The Singapore-based company conducted an experiment at the Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC), which explored the application of Unitatem CULTURA to enhance white leg shrimp growth within a controlled, modular closed recirculation aquaculture system (RAS). The experimental tanks contained Unitatem CULTURA spindle gears, which treated the water.
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4 weeks ago | 
nutraingredients.com | Jane Byrne |Horphag Research |Nutraceutical Trends
That facility produces aroma ingredients and precursors for vitamin production. The affected aroma ingredients include Ionones, Pyranol, DL-Menthol, Rose Oxides, Ethyllinalool, Nerolidol, and Isophytol R. BASF said the explosion and the subsequent blaze at the German site has caused damage, leading to a plant shutdown and subsequent supply disruption of the mentioned products. The delivery of all the affected ingredients will be delayed until further notice.
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4 weeks ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Jane Byrne
Image source, Annie DoyleImage caption, Author Annie Doyle said her "writing journey" began at the libraryBBC News, North East and CumbriaAn author has hit out at cuts to a city centre library's weekend opening hours saying they could be an aspiring writer's "only opportunity to pursue their own dream". From April, Newcastle City Library will close at 14:00 BST on a Saturday, rather than 16:00, as part of savings to "deliver a balanced budget", the local authority said.
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1 month ago | 
feednavigator.com | Jane Byrne
BioCraft Pet Nutrition, a biotech developing animal cell-cultured ingredients for the pet food market, has received registration from the Austrian authorities to use Category 3 animal byproducts (ABP) in the EU. The registration enables it to begin selling ingredients to EU pet food producers. Austrian authorities granted BioCraft the registration for the purpose of multiplying cells to produce pet food.
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1 month ago | 
feednavigator.com | Jane Byrne
The EU Commission’s recent proposal to revamp sustainability reporting regulations has sparked significant debate. While large multinationals will still be required to report, the proposed Omnibus measures raise the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) thresholds to companies with over 1,000 employees and €50m in turnover, effectively exempting many SMEs from mandatory disclosures.
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1 month ago | 
feednavigator.com | Jane Byrne
Amid the rapid spread of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in US poultry farms, US secretary of health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has proposed a controversial strategy. Instead of mass culling infected flocks, he suggests allowing the virus to spread naturally to identify and preserve birds with natural immunity. Kennedy, a well-known antivaccine advocate, has repeated this stance since early March, notably on Fox News, raising alarm among scientists and veterinarians.
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1 month ago | 
feednavigator.com | Jane Byrne
The third edition of the Adisseo Research Grant has recognized three innovative research projects, awarding a total of €1m over the next three years. The projects aimed to address key industry challenges, including climate change and the application of the One Health concept in animal production. Adisseo reports that over 50 valuable pre-proposals were received and reviewed by the scientific committee. “This process resulted in the selection of a shortlist of the most promising projects.
