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What is Robot Hayes about ?
After two years of hard work it is time to start talking about Robot Hayes
The Digital Tractor
I recently gave a talk about tractors and robots to the #Landwards Conference of #IagrE There is a lot of investment and hype going into robotic field machines very often to do specialist tasks in high value crops. The “robots” can generally do one or…
Commercialise your inventions
This is a chapter from a book Practical Precision Livestock Farming published by Wageneingen in 2022 in which I wrote about my experience of trying to commercialise my inventions both as a government scientist and commercial entrepreneur. I describe four…
1989 and 2022 turning points
I was asked recently by a friend why I am so engaged with Ukraine on LinkedIn. There is a short answer, I went there before the invasion a couple of times and saw the scale and beauty of the country and its resilience and I was emotionally pulled into…
Unsettled with real food in Tuscany
We need to shorter supply chains and local production
This could N badly
Last week I visited North West Scotland on a short holiday. It is a land of stunning open spaces, glaciated volcanic lumps and mountains interspersed with wide valleys, green and lush at this time of year. The green vegetation is not grass though, but a…
Codebreaker: The significance of RNA manipulation and its risks
I suggest that anyone interested in the sudden expansion of the capabilities of RNA coding reads The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson about the competition and collaboration in developing the CRISPR technologies in cutting splicing genetic sequences to…