DEFRA’s open by default creates opportunities for new types of agri-tech application

3D visualisations of landscapes, real time data on water quality and levels, market data on stocks of cereals held on farms and usage of cereals by maltsters – these are just some of the diversity of data to be made available by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in June 2016 creating […]
New dairy project to transform data use on farm

Innovation for Agriculture has been awarded a Horizon 2020 grant for its project proposal ‘ 4D4F – Data Driven Dairy Decisions for Farmers ’. The project brings together 16 partners from 9 EU countries spread from the Baltics to the Mediterranean and from West to East. The project will investigate the technologies that are available […]
FUW warns millions of pounds at stake over unchecked farm data
The warning comes on the eve of the May 15 SAF deadline, after which hefty penalties are incurred for late forms, and less than a month before the June 11 deadline when late forms and corrections are automatically rejected. FUW president Emyr Jones said: “The complexity of SAF forms adds significantly to the risk of […]