Entries by Jimmy Phillips

Defra Minister visits RootWave as £50k grower grant announced

RootWave’s game changing eWeeder for orchards and vineyards has been included in Defra’s Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024. The company also anticipates that growers will be able to claim further funding from the Combined Environment Land Management Offer. The pioneering tractor-powered machine that delivers full control of weeds using electricity was one of the […]

Weeding in a winter wonderland

When you know that it is heat that kills the weeds during eWeeding, it was fascinating to see how effective the revolutionary technology would be in sub-zero conditions! The mercury was showing at 5 degrees below zero when our team set off from our HQ and as we began treatment in a large Kent vineyard […]

Strong grower interest as weeds zapped at demo events

During August we demonstrated our new eWeeder for fruit at four commercial orchards and vineyards in Kent and Herefordshire. There was a lot of interest from growers and agronomists with over 100 booked to attend the events. Growers were able to see the machine treating weeds within tree and vine rows, before interacting with experts […]

RootWave showcases new machine at demo events

RootWave has held a series of successful demonstration events for its first tractor-powered eWeeding machine for orchards, vineyards and fruit. The RootWave machine treats weeds in the rows of vines, orchards and bushes using treatment electrodes on purpose-designed hydraulic arms allowing the machine to work seamlessly between different crops and row widths. The treatment uses […]

RootWave announce dates of eWeeding demonstration days

RootWave’s new tractor-powered eWeeder will be in action at a series of special events for growers and agronomists during the summer. The events will be held in commercial orchards and vineyards in Kent and Herefordshire in August. They will present a chance for growers and agronomists to see the eWeeder in action, and see trial […]

RootWave’s Chisom Akujobi wins Top 50 Women in Engineering award!

At RootWave we have a talented and diverse team, and we are immensely proud that our colleague Chisom Akujobi has been named winner of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2023 Chisom was nominated for her work as a Power Electronics Engineer developing RootWave’s patented high frequency electrical weed control […]

UK Electrical weed control firm RootWave to open crowdfunding 

Warwickshire based electrical weed control (eWeeding) pioneer RootWave is set to launch its first eWeeder within agriculture via private investment complemented by crowdfunding.  The company’s first tractor-powered machine for orchards and vineyards will be launched next year, with half the machines planned for production already reserved. eWeeding kills weed and root, providing the systemic control […]

Independent study explains why RootWave technology is the safest electrical weed control

A study has shown that RootWave’s patented 18 kHz electrical weed control is safer than 50Hz or DC devices, by orders of magnitude. In 1891, Jacques-Arsene d’Arsonval found that using high frequency alternating electric current significantly reduced the likelihood of serious injury from electric shock. The study on RootWave’s technology built on this and undertook […]

View from the Chair: “There is real opportunity for RootWave”

Dr Andy Jones joined the RootWave board as Chairman in April, bringing with him over 35 years’ experience in agriculture, and the AgriChem industry. In this article he reflects on his first year, and the size of the opportunity for RootWave in an industry he knows so well. I have a very high-level of confidence […]