Digital decision support tools will play an increasingly important role for potato farmers, that was the message from an industry-focused CHAP webinar ...
read moreThe UK’s first catalogue of UK crop-related microorganisms has now been launched by CHAP, in partnership with CABI and Fera. ...
read moreEvery year CHAP member the University of Greenwich holds an Ethical Food and Fairtrade Fortnight (EFFF) to raise awareness of the sustainability impacts ...
read moreFollowing on from the initial workshop in November last year, CHAP is hosting a second event for stakeholders interested in ‘Developing a Biopesticide ...
read moreAgri-Hack is inviting applications from budding entrepreneurs who think they could make a difference to farmers. ...
read moreMore than 110 delegates from 20 countries worldwide attended the webinar "Crop Phenotyping and Soil Health: Bridging the gap between science and practice", ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Sector Lead Dr Réka Haraszi attended a workshop series on specialty crops, which ran over four weeks from 15th January 2021. ...
read moreNovel Crop Breeding is the latest New Innovations topic to be examined by CHAP. Under the tagline Breeding Pipelines for Future Food, Fuel and Fibre Systems, ...
read moreThe SSCG Africa Agribusiness Summit 2021 on Thursday 28th January, focused on accelerating African agri-industry growth, productivity and ...
read moreOn Tuesday 4th February 2021, CHAP Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Associate Dr Aurélie Bovi attended Agri-TechE’s Envisioning Net Zero Futures for ...
read moreThe Microbiome Strategic Roadmap was published this month by KTN, with inputs from more than 70 leading academic and industry scientists, including CHAP ...
read moreAgri-tech innovation pioneers are being invited to enter a competition to find innovative ideas that will help astronauts produce food while in space. ...
read moreCHAP Technical Liaison Officer at Stockbridge Technology Centre, Lucy Plowman, attended a three-day Intercropping for Sustainability Conference last month. ...
read moreCHAP is being joined by experts from ADAS and Harvest Agronomy Ltd to present its latest lunchtime webinar: Managing pesticide resistance in potato crops ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Sector Lead Dr Réka Haraszi attended a Future Food Tech webinar on 19th January. The event was held to launch two innovation ...
read moreCHAP attended the ‘Digital Agriculture: Harnessing the Power of Technology and Global Innovations’ event which was part of the National Agri Horticultural ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Sector Lead Martin Squire attended an Agri-Tech Express virtual webinar on 15th January. ...
read moreJanuary saw the final installment of CHAP’s Innovation Collaboration workshop series, Collaboration for Sustainable Resilience. ...
read moreThe 2021 SHAKE Climate Change programme is looking for entrepreneurs with bold ideas to help farmers, agricultural production and the food chain to combat ...
read moreKTN is looking for 15 UK agri-tech businesses who want to learn about agricultural opportunities in Colombia. ...
read moreThe Africa Investment Conference took place virtually on the 20th January 2021 and was attended by CHAP’s International Business Development Manager, ...
read moreCHAP partner Liberty Produce has joined Writtle University College (WUC) to launch a public webinar series, beginning on 27th January. ...
read moreThe theme of this year’s Oxford Farming conference was Business as Unusual, a nod to the difficult and extraordinary times we are living through. Agricultural ...
read moreCHAP is partnering with Cranfield University and Agri-EPI to co-host a lunchtime webinar showcasing the services provided by our Phenotyping and Soil Health ...
read moreThe OFC started with a fringe event on 6th January 2021, with the initial session, led by Defra, on ‘Future Farming and Countryside Programme ...
read moreThe University of Lincoln, and Barclays Eagle Labs have joined forces to launch a 10-week virtual accelerator to help early stage agricultural technology ...
read moreResearchers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in collaboration with CHAP member Micromix have shown that a combination of biostimulants and micronutrients ...
read moreCHAP was delighted to participate in the virtual agri-innovation tour hosted by Sarah Fallon, Regional Director of Science and Innovation from the British ...
read moreDr Alex McCormack attended the CambPlants Hub event, a forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture ...
read moreDr Alex McCormack reflects on the PhenomUK/CHAP workshop, held on 3rd December, which examined novel technologies for pre-symptomatic disease detection ...
read moreCHAP sector lead Dr Reka Haraszi attended a Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum policy conference on 3rd December. ...
read moreInternational Business Development Manager, Dr Jenna Ross, attended the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit between 18th and 20th November. ...
read moreCHAP Research Associate for New Innovations, Dr Jemma Taylor, attended the Genome Editing and the Future of Food meeting on 1st December 2020. ...
read moreCHAP made its second ‘outing’ to the annual New Scientist Live exhibition, following last year’s successful event at London’s ExCel. ...
read moreCHAP Research Associate for New Innovations, Dr Jemma Taylor, attended the annual Pulse Crop Genetic Improvement Network (PCGIN) Stakeholders Meeting in ...
read morePlans to transform the farming system in England have been set out by government, in what is being billed as the most significant change to farming and ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Sector Lead Richard Glass chaired the first CSFB Stakeholder Workshop on 24th November, as part of the Innovate UK funded project ...
read moreCropTec, one of the must-attend annual events for the arable cropping sector, concentrates on new, innovative tech rather than traditional items associated ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Sector Lead Amy Farrington attended the AHDB online webinar, Technologies to Enhance Soil Monitoring and Crop Management, as part of ...
read moreThe Four Centres conference on Innovation for Food Resilience, held on November 19th, was a great success, with more than 1200 delegates from ...
read moreCHAP is conducting a survey in order to better understand substrate (growing media) use across UK horticulture, both as part of our role within the InnovateUK-funded ...
read moreCHAP Research Assistant Dr Jemma Taylor attended the final day of EI Innovate 2020, hosted by the Earlham Institute. The day focused on the benefits of ...
read moreCHAP’s Dr Alex McCormack provides an overview of the presentations and research discussed at PhenomUK’s recent Roots & Shoots event examining both ...
read moreCHAP’s Scientific Support Coordinator Dr Alex McCormack provides an overview of the presentations and research discussed at the American Phytopathological ...
read moreCHAP’s Scientific Support Coordinator Dr Alex McCormack attended the EI Innovate 2020 event, hosted by the Earlham Institute. Day 1 explored their work ...
read moreCHAP member Hummingbird Technologies is partnering with Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) and the Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) to launch the Sustainable ...
read moreCHAP’s Scientific Support Coordinator Dr Alex McCormack attended Agri Tech week, hosted by AgriTechE, and examines the topics from the Crop and Non-Chemical ...
read moreCHAP is hosting a stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Developing a Biopesticide for Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle Control’ on Tuesday 24th November, ...
read moreCHAP’s Dr Jenna Ross has been announced as one of four new directors of the Oxford Farming Conference. ...
read moreThe latest Barclays Eagle Labs webinar, this time looking at ‘The role of CEA in the sustainability of the agriculture sector’, is being held in this ...
read moreThe N8 Food Systems Policy hub has been developed to increase the impact of N8 AgriFood’s food systems research. The Policy Hub is being launched with ...
read moreWe are delighted to announce that our International Business Development Manager, Dr Jenna Ross, has been awarded the prestigious Farmers Club Educator ...
read moreInternational Business Development Manager, Dr Jenna Ross, attended the FAO High-Level Virtual Special Event on Strengthening Global Governance of Food ...
read moreA project to develop a biopesticide for Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (CSFB) is looking to recruit farmers to help shape the eventual outcomes. ...
read moreThe four Agri-Tech Centres of Innovation invite you to a half-day conference on Innovation for Food Resilience. ...
read moreCHAP Scientific Support Coordinator Dr Alex McCormack attended LEAF UK’s event focusing on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Field Vegetables on 15th ...
read moreCHAP is hosting a series of dynamic online sustainable resilience workshops in collaboration with 100%Open. ...
read moreCABI is presenting a series of webinars on the Burden of crop loss from 26th to 30th October 2020. ...
read moreAre you interested in developing innovative ideas or solutions to reduce food loss in vegetable, fruit and potato crops and improve food quality? ...
read moreThe third and final round of the government’s Countryside Productivity Small Grants (CPSG) scheme is offering £25 million to farmers in England for ...
read moreCHAP partner Bayer is inviting agri-tech start-ups, principal investigators, post-docs and grad students to take part in a live, interactive webinar about ...
read moreCHAP Marketing Manager, Darren Hassall summarises the highlights of the second day. ...
read moreCHAP’s Scientific ...
read moreNIAB, one of the UK’s fastest growing crop science organisations, has been announced as the newest partner in the CHAP network. ...
read moreThe Earlham Institute is hosting EI Innovate 2020: From Identification to Intervention in November. ...
read moreInnovation Sector Lead Richard Glass took part in a Farmers Weekly webinar on 17th September, together with Ben Scott-Robinson, co-founder of ...
read moreThe Intellidigest Consultancy is offering free access to online training in capacity building. ...
read moreThe British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) has announced the third in its lunchtime Zoom into Soil webinar series. ...
read moreCHAP partner ADAS is running a webinar on cover crops in the first week of October. ...
read moreCHAP is delighted to announce the launch of its new digital service – CropMonitor Pro. It is designed to help growers and agronomists predict the likelihood ...
read moreCrop Health and Protection (CHAP) one of the four UK Agri-Tech Centres of Innovation, has appointed Dr Peter Quinn, CEO of Genius Foods, to be its new ...
read moreA team at Newcastle University is developing a digital agronomy system for sustainable management of crops. ...
read moreThe CHAP Natural Light Growing Centre (NLG) at Warwick University’s Wellesbourne Campus, is enjoying its first harvest of baby-cucumbers. ...
read moreCHAP is delighted to announce the launch of a new project to develop an autonomous, hydroponic system centered around a novel hydrogel growing media. ...
read moreStudents across the UK are being invited to enter a competition to win a US$2,000 (~£1500) scholarship. The competition is looking for a precision agriculture ...
read moreIn August, the James Hutton Institute hosted the Fruit for the Future 2020 seminar series, which brought the latest news and promising research in sustainable ...
read moreCHAP is pleased to be a Media Partner of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, which will take place as a virtual event on September 15-16, 2020. ...
read moreThe 2020 British Tomato Growers’ Association Conference will, for the first time be a live, online and interactive event. ...
read moreCHAP partner CABI has partnered with leading researchers and institutions to launch a new portal that facilitates global research collaboration to to combat ...
read moreA research programme managed by scientists at CHAP partner NIAB has caught a damaging invasive crop pest in the UK for the first time. ...
read moreRegistration is now open for an agri-tech hackathon aimed at developing technological solutions to problems posed by Covid-19. ...
read moreCHAP member Berry Gardens is part of a research project to develop the country’s first robotic fruit farm. ...
read moreAgri-TechE has moved REAP 2020 online this year. It is hoping to give delegates a greater opportunity to interact with experts from across the agri-food ...
read moreFresh produce is not something we can take for granted: the stripped-bare supermarket shelves widely seen at the start of the Coronavirus crisis taught ...
read moreKnowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is running two briefing sessions to introduce the FeedUK initiative. ...
read moreCHAP’s Great Big Slug Hunt is under way, so don a pair of gloves and prepare to go on a slug safari in the cause of improving pest control for farmers, ...
read moreThe First Vertical Farming World Congress takes place online next month. ...
read moreFrom Monday 17th August, Eagle Labs is running an Agri-Tech Awareness week to highlight the importance of innovation in the sector. ...
read moreThe British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) is hosting a lunchtime webinar on erosion as part of its ‘Zoom into Soil’ series. ...
read moreInnovative technologies can help arable farmers increase productivity without negatively impacting the environment. However, uptake of these technologies ...
read moreA study published in the journal, Nature Food has highlighted the vulnerability of the UK food supply chain following the COVID-19 crisis. ...
read moreCotton is a key crop in Pakistan, but traditionally requires intensive pesticide use. Excessive pesticide use can affect farmers’ health and can also ...
read moreFrom today (28th July 2020), UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £26 million Innovate UK funding for new projects focusing ...
read moreFruit for the Future, the long-running soft fruit themed event, is the latest to announce it will be going virtual for 2020 due to Coronavirus. ...
read moreGovernment funding agency Innovate UK is calling on investors interested in helping UK companies to transform food production and work to achieve net zero ...
read moreSmall Robot Company (SRC) has announced an agreement to co-develop swarms of fourth generation autonomous aerial and terrestrial robots with a leading ...
read moreFollowing on from the successful Barclays Eagle Labs webinar series on Soil Health, the first in a new series, this time focusing on AI, Robotics and Autonomous ...
read moreCHAP is delighted to announce that Dr Jenna Ross has been appointed as our new International Business Development Manager. ...
read moreThe CHAP team is busily preparing for the launch of its eagerly-anticipated comprehensive decision support tool CropMonitor Pro. ...
read moreTwo opportunities have opened as part of Innovate UK’s £191m Sustainable Innovation Fund, a fund to help all sectors of the UK recover, grow and create ...
read moreA webinar series, hosted by FoodNavigator, is looking to address the issues faced by game changers, disruptors and pioneers unlocking innovation in the ...
read moreKTN’s Africa-UK Agrifood Missions, part of the GCRF AgriFood Africa Programme, is moving into its second phase with a series of webinars with sessions ...
read moreThe morning of Tuesday 23rd June saw the inaugural event of CHAP’s micro-webinar programme. ...
read moreCHAP has a new address. We are delighted to announce that, following an extensive rebrand by the former National Agri-Food Innovation Campus (NAFIC), we ...
read moreDeveloping a new National Food Strategy for England is an online conference, organised by the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum, on 7th ...
read moreCHAP’s Jenna Ross was one of an impressive panel of speakers spreading the message about Agri-Tech Innovation at a KTN webinar last week. ...
read moreWith all the current uncertainty for people, travel and gatherings, due to Coronavirus, the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has decided to run next year’s ...
read moreFellow agri-tech innovation centre Agrimetrics is running a webinar looking at the use of its proprietary AI (artificial intelligence) to predict harvests. ...
read moreVitacress, a CHAP member, has teamed up with LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) and Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (HIWWT) to launched ...
read moreThe third and final Barclays Eagle Labs webinar on Soil Health took place, appropriately, on June 3rd. ...
read moreThe #LockdownLearning campaign, led by EatFarmNow and NFU Education, has been a massive success, providing valuable learning resources for children during ...
read moreCHAP would like to bring to your attention the agROBOfood Open Call for Innovation Experiments and is happy to discuss any potential collaborative R&D ...
read moreCHAP member Micromix, part of Olmix, is celebrating the verification of several of its products for use in organic farming. ...
read moreThe European Commission is currently inviting feedback on the proposal to update Directive 2009/128/EC, the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD). ...
read moreThe latest Barclays EagleLabs webinar 'Carbon Sequestration and the benefits of good soil health' was broadcast on YouTube on Tuesday 26th ...
read moreResearch or advisory organisations are being invited to tender for funding to identify optimum chilling and duration of cold storage of long-cane raspberry ...
read moreA short animated film has been released to show how human activity spreads plant disease, in an effort to increase worldwide understanding of biosecurity ...
read moreIn this time of uncertainty, it’s important that we don’t lose sight of one thing that is certain - women strengthen our STEM (science, technology, ...
read moreCHAP’s Lockdown Learning adventures have seen another installment with the addition of not one but three videos from Dr Emma Campbell, Research Assistant ...
read moreUK AgriFood businesses interested in collaborating with African organisations, working together on innovative systems for sustainable management of the ...
read moreWith farmers doing an amazing job keeping the nation fed at this truly unprecedented time, it seems the industry is finally getting the wider recognition ...
read moreThe first of a series of webinars from Barclays Eagle Labs with the focus on soils was broadcast on Wednesday 13th May. ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Team has been undertaking a collaborative innovation programme within the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector. ...
read moreThe Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is running a competition offering three days of innovation support for up to eight Agri-Food and Biotechnology businesses. ...
read moreAs is becoming increasing common, and necessary, this year, Farm491 has taken its events online. ...
read moreAs the sector gears up for the first online Cereals Live Event, a range of speakers and activities has been announced. ...
read moreDr Jenna Ross has added to the learning materials on the EatFarmNow Lockdown Learning website. ...
read moreLEAF has announced that its planned Open Farm Sunday is to become Online Farm Sunday on 7th June. ...
read moreBilled as The Greatest Online Agricultural Show, an event held on the first weekend in May has raised more than 16 times its target of £1000. ...
read moreThe Barclays Eagle Lab at Cranfield University is planning three online Soil Sessions in May and June. ...
read moreCHAP has taken its engagement online to ensure we can continue to collaborate despite the Coronavirus crisis. ...
read moreA study being conducted by a PhD student at CHAP partner Rothamsted Research has been hit by the Coronavirus lockdown. ...
read moreCHAP has made its first contribution to the EatFarmNow Lockdown Learning website. ...
read moreThe Grand Jury of Agriculture Innovation Challenges organised by The World Bank & Draper University has announced winners across the three challenge ...
read moreThis Monday saw the launch of further support for small businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, which will be of interest to many businesses involved ...
read moreCHAP is delighted to announce the launch of a new project to develop an autonomous slug monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment system. ...
read moreThe Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is running two webinars about Agri-Tech Innovation in Australia and New Zealand in the next couple of weeks. ...
read moreCHAP partner CABI has launched a self-study course in Crop Pest Diagnosis created by its experts in plant health and diseases. ...
read moreToday, April 22nd, is the 50th anniversary of the first ever Earth Day, back in 1970. The theme for 2020 is Climate Action and a ...
read moreA CHAP Member is fast-tracking the building of two vertical farm modules in Bristol during the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
read moreUK farmers are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis in a very real way, as the shortage of seasonal workers - already a concern for many before the ...
read moreUK businesses driving innovation and development will be helped through the coronavirus outbreak with a £1.25 billion government support package, the ...
read moreAs parents get used to staying at home with their children and attempting home learning on a multitude of subjects, farmers across the country are doing ...
read moreAre you an Agri-Food Tech company looking to raise private investment? Applications are open for the KTN Agri-Food Tech Investment Showcase 2020, now ...
read moreTime-sensitive grant funding opportunity for businesses who are developing a new product in response to the COVID19 pandemic. ...
read moreInnovate UK has announced the next round of funding for the Future Leaders Fellowships scheme is now open. ...
read moreJust over two weeks ago – pre-lockdown - CHAP Business Development Manager Chris Delf attended almost the last public gathering of plant scientists and ...
read moreCHAP is leading a project to develop a diagnostic tool for Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) in Kenya. ...
read moreAs the UK and countries across the world adopt unprecedented social distancing and self-isolating protocols to try to stem the spread of Coronavirus, CHAP ...
read moreThe collective priority of the four UK Agri-Tech Centres – Agrimetrics, Agri-EPI Centre, CHAP and CIEL - is to help keep our staff, colleagues, partners ...
read moreOn 26th February CHAP Business development Manager Chris Delf attended the spring meeting of the Kent branch of the Institute for Agricultural ...
read moreInnovation Network Lead Dr Harry Langford attended a series of innovation meetings as part of an inbound trade mission from Iowa, USA, on 9th and 10th ...
read moreLyndsay Chapman, Chief Executive of fellow Agri-Tech Innovation Centre CIEL was featured in a story by UKRI on inspiring women earlier this month. ...
read moreThe Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) has launched the 2020 programme for the Agri-Tech investment showcase and is now calling for applications. ...
read moreOn Monday 2nd March, Dr Aurélie Bovi and Dr Harry Langford from the CHAP Innovation team attended a business-to-business partnering event at ...
read moreThe latest One Health Conference was held on 26th February, in Weybridge, dealing with ‘Strengthening Animal and Plant Health Surveillance’. ...
read moreThe IndAg group of independent agronomists and environmental advisers operating in North Yorkshire visited the Fera Science Laboratories at Sand Hutton ...
read moreCHAP partner CABI has announced the launch of a journal to publish original research and data in all fields related to agriculture and the biosciences. ...
read moreCHAP partner Rothamsted Research is looking to appoint a new Research Director and Chief Executive. ...
read moreThe Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) International Advances in Pesticide Application Conference was held on 28-30th January in Brighton. ...
read moreA new report published this week by the Food & Drink Sector Council (FDSC), to which the UK’s Agri-Tech Centres contributed, highlights the critical ...
read moreThe British High Commission Wellington, and the UK Department for International Trade in Auckland, are inviting applications to join a delegation of UK ...
read moreFunding is currently available from WRAP, as part of the Resource Action Fund (£18 million from Defra), which may help spark a project and collaboration. ...
read moreDr Aurélie Bovi from CHAP’s Innovation team attended a briefing event on February 13th, organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) ...
read moreInnovation Director Ruth Bastow attended the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum on environmental standards and the Office for Environmental ...
read moreCHAP is now a media partner for The Second annual Biopesticide Summit & Awards 2020, which will be held in Birmingham on 19-20 May. The event, hosted ...
read moreOn February 11th Commercial Director Linsey Cresswell and Business Development Manager Chris Delf attended the annual meeting of Phenom UK at ...
read moreOn 20th January 2020, the UK hosted the UK-Africa Investment Summit (UK-AIS) in London. ...
read moreThe Salon International de l’Agriculture au Maroc (SIAM) trade show takes place in Morocco from April 14th to 19th. ...
read moreAs part of their support strategy for business customers and especially start-up businesses, Barclays Bank have set up a network of Eagle Labs across the ...
read moreCHAP partner Rothamsted Research is creating a hub for high-growth agri and food tech businesses and entrepreneurs by repurposing the Russell Building, ...
read moreCHAP partner CABI has published a working paper looking at the impact of agricultural policies with a specific focus on subsidised sustainable biological ...
read moreThis year has been designated the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH2020) by the FAO, and a number of global events have been planned as part of ...
read moreEarlier this month, AHDB Sutton Bridge hosted a small delegation from Haryana state in India. This was organised by the Department for International Trade. ...
read moreOn Friday January 24th, Dr Aurélie Bovi attended an interactive workshop in London, organised by UKRI, for consortia developing applications ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Team has been undertaking a period of stakeholder engagement within the crop protection sector and across relevant parties. ...
read moreCHAP Commercial Director Linsey Cresswell and Business Development Manager Chris Delf attended the AICC conference at Whittlebury Manor, near Towcester, ...
read moreAs the UK prepares to exit the EU this weekend, farmers are gearing up for changes in funding away from the CAP to Environmental Land Management Schmes ...
read moreIt’s a very busy time of year as far as funding calls go and team CHAP has been working tirelessly with various partners within ag in order to help prepare ...
read moreCHAP Business Development Manager Chris Delf recently took part in a trade mission to India, organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British ...
read moreAgri-tech start-up Small Robot Company (SRC), launched a new crowdfunding campaign on 13th January, with a target of raising £700,000 in a ...
read moreCHAP member Hummingbird Technologies has paired up with agronomy firm Agrovista on a project to use a digital platform and remote sensing to complement ...
read moreThe theme of this year’s conference was Growing a Healthy Society, and sessions included debates on mental health, inclusivity and the relationship between ...
read moreAs a prelude to the UK-Africa Investment Summit taking place in January 2020, the Agri-Business Partnership Forum took place on the 4th December ...
read moreCHAP partner Fera Science, which specialises in innovative translational science research, has been certified ISO 14001 compliant by BSI. ...
read moreCHAP member Small Robot Company (SRC) has announced it will begin trials for its non-chemical precision robotic weeding system for cereal crops early next ...
read moreThis week saw the launch of the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). CHAP partner CABI, was represented ...
read moreThe latest KTN event for Transforming Food Production; Science and Technology into Practice, Feasibility and Demonstration Briefing was held in York on ...
read moreThe Potato Industry Event took place in Harrogate on November 20-21 and CHAP was out in force on both days with a space on the Innovate UK stand. ...
read moreAs part of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March 2020, three UK start-ups will be offered the opportunity to attend the summit ...
read moreCHAP member Farm Urban is launching a new campaign to extend the reach of its healthy eating mission across the city of Liverpool. ...
read moreCHAP and Innovate UK recently co-hosted an event aimed to help companies and CHAP members navigate the process of applying for grants available through ...
read moreThe Advances in Biological Control and IPM 2019 conference was held on November 20-21 in Marston, Lincs. Presentations were given covering a wide range ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Team has been undertaking a period of stakeholder engagement within the agronomy sector and across relevant parties, to underpin collaborative ...
read moreInnovation Director Dr Ruth Bastow attend the launch event for the ISCF Transforming Food Production (TFP) Science and Technology into Practice at Stoneleigh ...
read moreCHAP’s resident soil scientist and Innovation Network Lead, Dr Harry Langford, spoke at this year’s Soils in Practice 2019 (South) at Russell Smith ...
read moreCHAP and CIEL were Bronze sponsors of the AIC conference, Agribusiness 2020 on November 13th. ...
read moreFollowing on from the success of New Scientist Live, CHAP was invited to exhibit Stockbridge Technology Centre’s vertical farm demonstrator at the first ...
read moreCHAP partners Cranfield University and Rothamsted Research are continuing their joint collaboration with Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. ...
read moreCHAP and its partner RIPE Building Services, officially opened their new high-tech greenhouse capability at the University of Warwick’s Wellesbourne ...
read moreThere have been several funding calls recently from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), which sets out Grand Challenges to put the UK at the ...
read moreA partnership between CHAP, UK company and CHAP member PES Technologies and Kenyan research organisation International Centre of Insect Physiology and ...
read moreThe Institute of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) Landwards Conference 2019 took place on October 30th at the East of England Conference Centre ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Network Lead Dr Harry Langford attended the N8 AgriFood Conference in York on October 22nd and 23rd. ...
read moreCHAP board member Hannah Senior has been announced as a 2020 Nuffield Scholar. ...
read moreCHAP is partnering with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) to run an event on November 18th about the current agri-tech funding opportunities. ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Hub Lead, Dr Jenna Ross, was out in Rome from 12th-17th October representing CHAP and Nuffield UK at the Food and Agriculture Organization ...
read moreThe World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit held in London in October was certainly the place to be to discuss the industry's latest innovations and consider ...
read moreCHAP member Hummingbird Technologies was crowned as the Gold Winner of the British Farming Awards 2019 at an event in Birmingham’s National Conference ...
read moreThe winner of the second annual Tesco Agri T-Jam and World Agri-Tech Pitch Day is a UK agri-tech start-up company working to develop sensors to detect ...
read moreThe UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, Transforming Food Production Challenge has up to £90 million to help businesses invest in data-driven ...
read moreThe Game Changing Technologies event for the Agri-Tech Sector event took place in London on October 10th. CHAP CEO, Fraser Black and Commercial Director, ...
read moreInnovation Hub Lead, Jenna Ross, Business Development Manager, Chris Delf and Head of Marketing, Darren Hassall were in attendance at the fantastic at ...
read moreCHAP and farming technology company Liberty Produce have launched the Innovation Hub for Controlled Environment Agriculture (IHCEA) at the James Hutton ...
read moreYork-based Biovale is holding a half-day event, on 17th October, to discuss small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD). When it comes to commercially ...
read moreOn October 9th, the CHAP Innovation team organised a workshop in Leeds to explore the potential benefits of developing digital agronomy services ...
read moreGlobally, women are still an enormously under-utilised resource, especially when it comes to management roles. This is perhaps even more the case in agricuture ...
read moreOn October 8th CHAP welcomed the agri-tech section of the Department of International Trade (DIT) to York, along with commercial officers from ...
read moreThe Knowledge Transfer Network has launched a new SPARK Award call. Ten grants are available for innovative projects between a research partner (university ...
read moreInnovate UK has launched the ISCF - Future Food Production Systems funding call. ...
read moreThe new ISCF Future Food Production Systems call has officially opened. As Andrew McLay from Innovate UK hinted, at the One Health event on September ...
read moreCHAP partner CABI is looking to help smallholder farmers in Kenya to increase their yields through ecological intensification (EI), in order to meet the ...
read moreInternational Agri-Tech Centres representative Hadyn Craig was in Paraguay this summer as part of a Department for International Trade delegation focusing ...
read moreThe NFU has published a document outlining its goal for agriculture in England and Wales to achieve Net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040. In ...
read moreCHAP Innovation Hub Lead Richard Glass attended the University of Warwick Industry day on the 17th September at The Slate Conference Centre, ...
read moreFollowing on from the Frontier workshop in August where user feedback was gathered, in order to ensure we are in the best possible position when we launch, ...
read moreCHAP’s Innovation Network Lead, Dr Harry Langford, attended this KTN event on the transferable application of sensor technologies to precision agricultural ...
read moreFour members of the CHAP team attended the Agri-Tech East Agriculture 101 training day in September. ...
read moreRepresentatives from CHAP Partners gathered at Stockbridge Technology Centre for an exchange of ideas and an opportunity to work up some new concepts for ...
read moreIndependent agronomists from Prime Agriculture visited NAFIC this week to discuss the support to agriculture with work being done by CHAP and Fera. The ...
read moreThe CropMonitor Pro service predicts the risk posed by a range of pests and diseases, as evidence for the need to spray, using a range of data such as ...
read moreWork on this exciting new £1.3m project led by Liberty Produce as part of a consortium of eleven partners including CHAP and Stockbridge Technology Centre ...
read moreRuth Bastow and Jenna Ross attended the Integrated Farming Workshop as part of the Allerton project in Loddington today. The Allerton Project researches ...
read moreOur Innovation Hub Lead, Jenna Ross, won the prestigious Student of the Year award from the Chartered Management Institute, based on her recent MBA. The ...
read moreThis is your chance to find out more about the capabilities of the Agri-Tech Centres*, https://www.agritechcentres.com/ and ...
read moreStockbridge Technology Centre, Cawood, North Yorkshire, is holding a sustainability conference on 24th June, 2019, that will showcase the ongoing research ...
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