“The Digital Technology Farm (DTF) concept is significantly advancing our understanding of how new and innovative technologies can be applied across a range of farming systems. Agrii’s DTF network facilitates this by enabling on-farm testing and validation, a crucial step in developing and proving the value case of technology on farm. Ultimately the DTF network is paving the way for greater integration and commercial adoption of technologies within UK agricultural and horticultural industries.”

“Innovation is also a key theme for the RHIZA development team. Working closely with R&D and trialling new technologies on our DTF sites, as well as collaborating with Green Horizons, fruit and speciality crop teams, we are actively investigating other areas in which new Agtech innovations can bring faster and more informative insights to help drive management decisions and sustainability. A few areas on which we are focusing include supporting growers and advisors with environmental decisions, field and farm benchmarking, 3rd party integrations and predictive modelling using remote sensing. As with all new technologies, we need to have a clear understanding of the value these tools create for our customers.”

“The Digital Technology Farms are a testing ground to enable us to monitor the performance of a range of technologies in enhancing grower’s abilities to improve productivity, drive better sustainability and increase their profitability in food production. The marketplace is flooded with technology and digital applications and it’s our job to guide our growers to those that have been tried and tested in a farming environment.”