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The use of chemical herbicides is restricted to small application windows due to wind, temperature, rainfall, calendar date, crop growth stage and pre-harvest interval. They also can have use limitations due to local environmental restrictions. Mechanical weeding does not work unless soil conditions are just right – not too dry and not too wet – otherwise weeds […]
Farmers incur high operating costs when spraying due to the consumable cost of herbicides. The incremental cost of diesel with RootWave is significantly lower than this cost which offsets the cost of the machine over time. Herbicide prices can be volatile and are likely to increase as new patented formulations are marketed. The operating costs […]
Kineton (UK), 20 January 2020, 6:00 AM GMT RootWave is developing and marketing solutions to kill weeds using electricity to offer a scalable and sustainable alternative to chemical herbicides. Funding will be used to expand sales of RootWave Pro, a professional hand-weeder for spot weeding and treating invasive species, and integrate its technology into automated […]
RootWave is delighted to have been named as one of the top 50 most disruptive companies in the UK in the 2019 Disruption Index which highlights and celebrates those businesses innovating and leading the way in our rapidly changing world.
RootWave wins a £986k UK Government Innovate UK grant to scale its technology across different crop types and weeding platforms.
There is growing evidence that the use of chemicals in agriculture is harmful to both the environment and human health. Maija Palmer discusses potential alternatives in a podcast with Helen Browning, chief executive of the Soil Association, Adam Speed of the Crop Protection Association and Andrew Diprose, chief exec of Rootwave, a startup that uses […]
RootWave is proud to announce it won the Judges’ Choice Award at Rabobank’s Foodbytes! London 2018 event. Abi Ramanan, CEO of ImpactVision and one of the judges stated “The potential of RootWave’s technology to eradicate weeds without using chemicals has huge potential for agriculture and farming sustainability, plus Andrew’s story resonated particularly well – I’m […]
RootWave is delighted to be a finalist in the British Farming Awards Machinery and Farm Technology Innovator. The British Farming Awards is a celebration of the every-day resilience and innovation demonstrated across the core sectors of agriculture. Organised by AgriBriefing, parent company to Farmers Guardian, Arable Farming and Dairy Farmer, there are 14 categories in […]
RootWave wins a £50k UK Government Innovate UK grant to further enhance its next generation technology.
RootWave is the proud winner of this year’s Start-up category for the IET Innovation Awards 2017 which celebrates the very best innovations from both industry and academia across so many important areas of science, engineering and technology.
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