Farm visit to Godminster Farm
Technologists, farmers and advisers get together on-farm The sun came out for a brilliant on-farm day hosted by Agri-EPI Centre at the organic dairy farm of the year, Godminster Farm, on the 24th of March 2022. Godminster Farm is located outside of Bruton, Somerset, and its historic pedigree dates back to the Doomsday Book of 1086 which […]
Newton Farm joins Agri-EPI farm network
Newton Farm in Brecon, Wales has joined the Agri-EPI Centre Satellite Farms network. Owners Richard & Helen Roderick, along with their son Tudor, farm 850 acres including 200 acres they’ve recently rented and plan to farm regeneratively. The Roderick’s manage a diverse business, including an impressive outwintered herd of stabiliser cattle, a flock of 800 […]
Welcome to Agri-EPI: Charlie Bowyer
We are thrilled to welcome our most recent Agri-EPI Centre recruit, Charlie Bowyer, to the team as our new Business Development Manager for Livestock and Agriculture. Coming from a family mixed sheep and beef farm in South Wales, Charlie graduated from Harper Adams University with a degree in Agriculture in 2015. He then entered the biogas […]
Farming Innovation Pathways: LightWeeding
The LightWeeder is a world-first eye-safe, herbicide-free, carbon neutral, commercially viable weeding system delivered by lightweight autonomous field robots via UK agri-robotics company and Agri-EPI Centre member, Earth Rover. The LightWeeding technology uses semiconductor LEDs to solve key technical, safety and commercialisation challenges faced by laser-based weeding systems. The LightWeeder is part of CLAWS (Concentrated […]
Industry collaborators discuss developing autonomous ag solutions for safety and security
The development and utilisation of autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence to grow and harvest food is gathering traction across the agriculture sector. Automation has become a critical element in sustainable food production, and robots and AI are now advanced enough to be used for non-standardised tasks such as weeding, crop sensing, and fruit picking. Many […]