Hummingbird Technologies Limited

The Sustainable Agriculture Project or Sus-Ag is a collaboration between LEAF, Sustainable Food Trust and Hummingbird Technologies to create a new digital self-assessment tool for measuring on-farm sustainability, using LEAF's Integrated Farm Management system and the SFT's harmonised framework of metrics for data collection. Hummingbird will be the techn...

Lettuce growers currently make 7 to 8 'interventions' in the course of a crop life-cycle listed below; * Soil testing / Base nutrient (N,P,K) application * Planting - Phosphorous (P) application * VRN Trials * Weeding and nitrogen (N) application at 3 weeks * Weekly pass with prophylactic pesticide, 6 to 7 applications in total * Secondary fertiliser appl...

Hummingbird Technologies, in collaboration with the STFC's Hartree Centre, are proposing to build a fully automated AI tool for agricultural field boundary detection and change detection that is both commercially viable on a global scale and robust enough to tackle the differing geological, land use and farming variances encountered in agriculture. The pr...

This project brings innovative and disruptive technologies together from IBM, Rothamsted Research, The University of Sheffield, 2Excel, STFC-Hartree Centre and Syngenta to transform the crop management market with blackgrass as its first use case. Blackgrass is a weed costing farmers more than £0.58bn/year, however data, management strategies and expertis...

To improve the science, collection protocols, dataset quality and analysis behind the machine learning capabilities to achieve a +95% accuracy on the presymptomatic disease and weed detection algorithms to create commercially scalable products.

"Each year the UK imports \>3Million Tonnes of soya protein for use in the pig, poultry and dairy sectors, 98% from South America (the growth of soy plantations being a key factor in the forced eviction of many rural communities, excessive pesticide use and deforestation). It is widely recognised that the UK could cut its dependency on imported soya by \>...

The withdrawal of numerous pesticides under Directive 91/414/EEC and subsequent amendments is central to promoting low pesticide-input farming in EU Member States. Furthermore, EU-wide standards for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) are being developed that will become mandatory from 2014 relying on adoption of alternative methods to control pests and dise...