Growing crops under LEDs "means you can put a facility down in the middle of a town and grow crops right where you need them", according to Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chief executive Graham Ward.
A number of Britain's leading crop-sprayer manufacturers will show a two-nozzle pesticide container rinsing system at the Cereals Event 2012 (Boothby Graffoe, 13-14 June), where farmers and growers can try it on the Hypro-EU stand.
Sally Drury rounds up the latest developments designed to meet the needs of growers large and small.
Two new interest-free finance programmes are available to John Deere's UK customers.
David Domoney is joining Alan Titchmarsh to present Love Your Garden, which starts again on ITV in late June. Transmission day has yet to be decided.
Grower Services has launched a new irrigation ring for trees and shrubs in 25m rolls.
Netherlands-based Natural Plastics has developed a tree support system that it says offers a more sustainable solution.
Automating common crop cultivation and harvesting tasks will mean "re-evaluating the whole approach to agriculture", according to Harper Adams University College head of engineering Professor Simon Blackmore.
De Boer is supplying structures to RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Floriade this year.
Cambridgeshire-based Fordham Nursery & Garden Centre has taken delivery of a compact Weidemann 1350CX45 wheeled loader to streamline the handling of large trees and bulky materials.
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