Clock House Farm Limited

There is great potential for AI based forecasting to have a significant positive impact on improving productivity, profitability and sustainability in the soft fruit sector. This project's aim is to support the adoption of such technology from UK based FruitCast Ltd on two of the largest English growers of strawberries in polytunnels: Clock House Farm in ...

**Public Project Summary** This project will trial two innovative nitrogen products; **R-Leaf** and **Vixeran,** as sustainable alternatives to conventional foliar fertilisers in commercial **apple orchards**. R-Leaf is a daylight-activated foliar spray that converts atmospheric nitrogen oxides (NOx) into plant-available nitrate directly on the leaf surfa...

Horticulture is suffering a labour productivity crisis. A rise in farm gate prices for strawberries since 2010 of just 23% \[_Defra_\] versus minimum wage increases of 77% in the same period \[_HomeOffice_\] have squeezed growers' margins to the absolute limit. Meanwhile a lack of labour availability, with 44% of growers employing seasonal labourers repor...

Ensuring food and nutrition security has been a constant struggle throughout human history, but perhaps never more so than now with a rapidly increasing global population (estimated to reach 9.7bn by 2050), the current challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and more locally, the legacy effects of BREXIT. Traditional production...

Our vision for future soft fruit farming encompasses fleets of electric robotic and autonomous systems powered by renewable energy that pick, transport, pack fruit whilst gathering data to maximise yield, reduce waste and environmental impacts. Additionally, these technologies underpin industry sustainability by reducing sector reliance on low skilled lab...