Mark Philip-Sorensen

🚜 British farming must be at the heart of the UK Food Strategy 🍞🍏🥕🥩 From rising costs to climate pressures, the UK food supply chain is facing unprecedented challenges — impacting public health, environmental sustainability, and long-term food security. The government’s new UK Food Strategy policy paper lays bare the scale of the challenge. In our latest update, Louise Penn explores the UK Food Strategy and outlines why a resilient, sustainable food system starts on the farm — and how policy must catch up with the innovation already happening in the field. 🔗 Read now > https://loom.ly/O8fYaEA #UKFoodStrategy #BritishFarming #SustainableAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #FoodSecurity #FarmPolicy #GoodFoodCycle #AgriConsulting

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We’re excited to announce that we’ve been named as a partner in the AgriScale pilot programme, a new cross-Government initiative unveiled in London by The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Angela Eagle. “AgriScale also represents a new cross-UK Government partnership, powered by the Industrial Strategy and inspired by experience from the automotive sector, which includes Defra digital, data, technology and security, Innovate UK and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult partners, the Manufacturing Technology Centre and Warwick Manufacturing Group. This innovative new approach will start next month and underlines our commitment to growth.” – Angela Eagle By bringing our scale-up expertise to Agri-tech, we’ll help accelerate innovative and sustainable ways to grow, harvest, and pack fresh produce—building a resilient, productive food system and empowering this frontier industry to scale and make a positive impact. #WhereProgressHappens #OneMTC #AgriTech #AgriScale WMG, University of Warwick

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LIVE from Groundswell - Part 2 Building Resilient Farm Businesses In part two of this episode we take a look underground to uncover practical tips to build better farm resilience. This episode offers a simple checklist to help farmers take action. 🎧 Featuring insight from: • Tom Perrott – Agrii • Libby Richards – @RHIZADigital

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We’re proud to share the story of our collaboration with Origin Enterprises Plc – a leading international agronomy services group committed to sustainable land use and innovation 👏 With their UK businesses spanning over 14,000 farms, 150,000 agricultural fields, and 600,000 hectares of land, Origin needed more than just an implementation partner for their D365 project – they needed an experienced team who understood their unique business challenges, with capacity to move fast and launch with confidence. Here’s some of what we achieved together: 🗓 Streamlined logistics and scheduling ⏱ Significant process improvements and automation 💡 Enhanced ESG reporting and field visibility 📈 Faster decision-making 💬 ‘I would recommend Columbus without hesitation’ 💬 Derek Wilson, Chief Information Officer of Origin Enterprises PLC ⭐️ Click below to watch the full case study to see how our highly experienced team of manufacturing experts helped Origin achieve big results – fast ⏱ https://lnkd.in/eiK2P4NA #DigitalTransformation #MicrosoftDynamics365 #CustomerSuccess #OperationalExcellence #ERPImpementation

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Quality Meat Scotland and AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board are one year into a baselining pilot which collects real-world data from more than 170 UK farms to measure 'carbon in' versus 'carbon out'. This is an important pilot for future government policy as it will reduce the reliance on one-sided (often international) data which only report emissions and omit carbon capture and storage. 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ To put this in context, imagine if I only measured how many calories you ate and ignored the calories you expended in physical or metabolic activities. This would give a false impression of your obesity risk. 🚜 In the same way, an imprecise estimate is being made of the climate impact of UK livestock farming by ignoring carbon sequestration in grazing land, the positive impact of livestock on soil health, flooding risk and biodiversity, the nutrient content of meat/eggs/dairy, and the cyclical nature of family farms (where crops and animals are interlinked). 🍒 I am excited to see the results of the baselining project - you can get more details here https://lnkd.in/e4y-MFGk

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