We’re absolutely thrilled to celebrate a fantastic achievement by Jacob Swindell, a promising AgriFoRwArdS PhD student. Jacob recently presented his very first research paper at the prestigious IAS’19 conference in Genoa, Italy, and to top it all off, he walked away with the highly prestigious Best Student Paper Award! What an incredible debut on the international stage. Jacob’s paper, “Discrete […]
AgriFoRwArdS student Emmanuel Soumo recently visited his industry partner, Crystal Heart Salad Company, who are completing a two-year InnovateUK project within their rather impressive experimental greenhouse. The InnovateUK project was closely aligned with Emmanuel’s MSc Project: A Data-Driven Approach for Optimal Control of Autonomous Greenhouse for Lettuce Growth. James Bean and his team at Crystal […]
The Lincolnshire Farming Conference 2025 took place on the 13th February at the Lincolnshire Showground, this year the focus was on inspiring the next generation. The event brought together an exciting selection of speakers to answer the question, ‘in times of significant change and an ageing demographic of farmers, how can we inspire the next […]
By Robert Stevenson… What an exciting time we had at the Lincolnshire Showground for the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society’s Agricultural Careers Event. With 700 secondary school students, aged 13-18, attending the Lincolnshire Showground from schools across Lincolnshire, ready to explore and gain some real insight into the diverse world of agricultural careers. Amongst the impressive array […]