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Soil monitoring innovations on display at The Oxford Real Conference

Understanding how soils behave and not just what they contain is a key challenge that two companies are trying to solve

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Soil monitoring innovations on display at The Oxford Real Conference

Alex Park, founder of Biofonic, addressed delegates of the Oxford Real Farming Conference on Thursday, January 8. She said: "We are building acoustic sensors and AI to support ecosystem-friendly regenerative...

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