Between 11th and 12th October 2018, colleagues working on the SalFar (saline farming) research project met in Lund, Sweden. During the meeting, Dr Gary Bosworth, School of Geography at the University of Lincoln, presented his findings on the baseline study which explores the scope for saline agriculture and the...
Professor Simon Pearson, Director of the Lincoln Institute of Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, was invited to deliver a talk at the annual Science and Technology in Society forum on Monday 8th October 2018. Topics discussed were centred around ‘Advanced Agriculture and Food Industries’. The Science and...
A 24-month project which hopes to tackle the high cost of retail refrigeration has been led by a consortium comprising the University of Lincoln UK, Tesco Stores Ltd, the Grimsby Institute and Intelligent Management Systems Ltd. The full-scale project is called the Development of Dynamic Energy Control Mechanisms for Food...
A new project has been launched to examine how the Internet of Things (IoT) could transform the food industry through innovations such as ‘smart’ cooking appliances, data-driven supermarket refrigeration networks and enhanced food traceability systems. The Internet of Food Things (IoFT) Network Plus will bring together data and computer...
On Tuesday 24th April 2018, the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT), University of Lincoln and the CLA will host a seminar to shed light on how agri-robotics could shape the future of farming. LIAT’s latest research projects on agri-robotics, soil science and water will be discussed, along with...
Agritech innovation has been given a funding boost of £4.78 million to turn cutting-edge research into commercially attractive technology. The fund will be delivered by the newly formed Ceres Agritech Knowledge Exchange Partnership, which aims to pool the research expertise of five universities and three agricultural research centres with...