Registered office: Agri-EPI Centre Midlands Agri-Tech Innovation Hub, Poultry Lane, Edgmond Newport, England, TF10 8JZ
Company Reg. Number: 09922991
VAT Number: 240019456 (UK)
How We Can Help
Through our established network of industry partners, together we can create scientifically robust and commercially viable agricultural solutions.
Why You Should Work With Us
We specialise in connecting knowledgeable experts and new solutions across the livestock, crops, horticulture, and aquaculture sectors so that, together, we can deliver profitable and sustainable cutting-edge technologies to market.
Our Ecosystem
Our carefully-crafted ecosystem of agricultural innovation takes aim at the most challenging real-world farming and agricultural problems, stress-testing and then demonstrating the viability of new solutions that benefit not just the industry, but the world at large.
Knowledge Exchange Network
As a key, government-backed player in the agricultural sector, we at Agri-EPI Centre have been able to enlist 25 farms spread throughout the UK to participate in the Agri-EPI Farm Network.
We equipped these farms with a suite of precision sensor technologies to measure variances across every dimension of food production – quality, productivity, wastage, and more.
The basic package includes computers, IT infrastructure, meeting rooms with displays, a DJI drone, and a Davis weather station designed to get ‘offline’ farms digitally connected. We also offer satellite imagery, soil-zoning, soil-sampling, and other bespoke technologies based on the needs of the farm and collaborators.
From there, we can begin to implement the technologies and innovations that will change the future of farming, and assess the ways in which we can work together to bring these ideas to full commercial viability
Agricultural technology projects
The projects we oversee span a broad range of industry-led agricultural technologies in applied research and development. To date, we have successfully delivered 41 CR&D projects and 120 commercial projects, representing a combined value of over £45million.
Industry impact
Discover the practical application of new and emerging agri-tech research and innovation.
Ritchie Beef Monitor
The Ritchie Beef Monitor is an intelligent water trough that offers a convenient method of weighing cattle by scanning tags that send information to an online platform accessible to farmers. With it, cattle experience less stress during weighing and farmers can more closely monitor growth.
Crover: The world’s first bulk grain-monitoring robot
When grains such as wheat and barley are stored long-term in sheds and silos, they’re at increased risk of spoilage from infestation by insects and moulds. CROVER is a robotic device that analyses conditions inside grain bulks to identify sub-optimal storage conditions, as well as physically mix grains in-situ, which helps avoid spoilage. CROVER is remotely operated, with the ability to reach every corner of the grain bulk, meaning workers can avoid performing the risky operation themselves.
Salad Harvesting Automation
The UK’s agri-food labour shortage, worsened by unprecedented geopolitical and pandemic-related events in recent years, has significantly affected farms and supply chains. Agri-EPI has helped to develop a robotic solution that automates the labour-intensive process of lettuce harvesting. The design, now in the prototype stages, lifts lettuce clear from the field with an estimated 50% reduction in the use of human labour compared to traditional methods, circumventing the urgent issue of labour shortages using robotics.
WELL-CALF
The WELL-CALF project works to develop the first precision agriculture integrated monitoring system that was specifically designed for early disease detection or developing health issues in calves from seven days old to sixteen weeks old. The project makes optimising treatment and management practices at an individual animal level a simple and accessible reality for dairy and beef farmers.
Marine Aquaculture Innovation Centre
We are supporting UK aquaculture innovation with a multi-species, marine aquaculture trials facility in Argyll, Scotland. In conjunction with Otter Ferry Seafish, we’ve established a new industry-led R&D facility in Scotland.
On-Farm Demo Day – Godminster
In line with our mission to bridge the gap between the people creating innovative new agricultural technologies and those who benefit from them, we hold regular on-farm demonstration days. Attended by innovators from farm to fork these events offer the opportunity to better understand the agricultural challenges that together we aim to find solutions to.
What our partners say
What our partners say
