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Farm intelligence · nutrient density
Understand how farming shapes nutrient density.
We turn farm data, food measurements and research into practical intelligence for farmers and food businesses.
Founded by farmers. Working across the food system.
The Field Report · Week 44
Budget fallout, winter feed, pests and a dairy door to Mexico
Money led the farming shows: the rural economy after the Autumn Budget, then winter feeding and silage, and energy costs feeding into food prices.
What led the week
- Rural economy outlook
- Winter feeding and silage management
- Energy costs and food inflation
Our clients
Working across farming and food.
We work with farmers, farm trade organisations, food manufacturers, agronomists and national supermarkets, alongside a growing network of international partners.
Vitals · farm intelligence
Put your farm data to work.
Vitals connects farm records, food nutrient measurements and research. Investigate differences in nutrient density and decide what to measure or test next.
Connect
Bring farm records and food measurements together.
Understand
Explore patterns and possible explanations.
Decide
Identify missing data and the next useful step.
Pulse · evidence tools
Put research to work.
Pulse AI · Free
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Get answers about farming and nutrition, with sources and evidence strength.
Pulse Workshop
Assess your products
Assess and benchmark nutritional quality across products, ingredients and farms.
Pulse Check
Check a claim
See whether research supports a nutrition claim. No subscription needed.
The evidence
Know what the research supports.
Pulse Brain brings together 34,000+ scientific records on farming, soil, food and health. Each is graded for strength, summarised in plain language and checked for retractions and duplicates.
Our Growing Health Report draws on +3,000 peer-reviewed studies.
“We, at the Bionutrient Institute, are delighted to be working with Vitagri to accelerate the measurement of how farming can increase nutritional density.”
Our purpose
Make nutrient density count.
Measure the nutrients in food. Understand the farming behind it. Help farmers gain recognition for nutritional quality, across farming systems. What is nutrient-dense food?
Research in development
Testing what farming data can predict.
Our predictive research tests whether farming records can forecast food nutrient composition, and food measurements can help check how it was grown. These models need validation across farms and seasons.
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Dark Matters
The hidden workforce that decides what’s in our food, with the sources behind every claim.
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