AIA Agri-Tech Investment Advisory service expands staff
AIA has expanded its staff with the appointment of Jos Lovegrove-Fielden to the role of Investment Advisory Manager. Jos joins AIA from PwC’s London practice where he oversaw audit, assurance and advisory services to a range of venture capital, private equity and investment management clients. He is also a partner in his family’s dairy farm […]
Agri-EPI welcomes new Academic Partnerships Manager, Wendy Hewitson
Agri-EPI Centre has welcomed on board a new Academic Partnerships Manager to their team, Wendy Hewitson. Wendy has a diverse background, with twenty years experience within the retail sector, followed by a further twelve years at Barclays, where she spent the last five as the AgriTech programme manager for Barclays Eagle Labs. Wendy was one […]
Putting farmers at the centre of innovation
Agri-EPI Centre has enlisted a network of farms spread throughout the UK to participate in the Agri-EPI Farm Network. Why a network of commercial farmers? The innovation farm network was developed by Agri-EPI from the desire to “close the gap” between research and the end-user, by creating a platform to host research projects and evaluate […]
Footbathing to treat lameness in dairy farming
Lameness is recognised as the primary animal welfare issue in dairy farming. Nationally, 25% of dairy cows are lame at any one time. Although it has multiple causes, the key factor in most herds is endemic diseases, such as digital dermatitis, sole ulcers, and white line disease. Early detection and prompt intervention is critical to […]
Agri-tech solutions for sustainable farming
At Agri-EPI Centre, we help to develop robust and commercially viable solutions to empower more sustainable farms. From bespoke validation trials to system and product development, we are a collaborator of choice for agri-tech developers, start-ups through to established companies. We are open to new projects and partnerships that use agri-tech in both funded and […]
Spectral imaging for the agriculture industry
Spectral imaging as a general concept combines characteristics of imaging and spectroscopy technologies. Optical spectral imaging particularly makes use of visible, near infrared and short-wave infrared spectral range, has been demonstrated to be a very powerful tool in identifying, classifying, and mapping specific targets across whole scenery image in various application scenarios. Spectral Imaging is […]
Virtual fencing for livestock: Nofence
Nofence began in a small Norwegian town named Batnfjordsøra, many years ago when their Founder and CTO, Oscar Hovde, set about making his idea of virtual fencing for livestock a reality. As the concept grew, so did the interest. The man with a plan soon became people with a purpose: getting animals out on pasture […]
Ground-breaking technology to monitor biodiversity on-farm 24/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWF0g8FG9E&pp=ygUVYmlvZGl2ZXJzaXR5IGFncmkgZXBp40% of insect species risk extinction, and a further 30% are endangered (New Scientist 2019), yet few farmers have the tools to actively monitor or quantify on-farm biodiversity, despite it being an important measure of ecosystem, landscape, overall biological health of the farm and key public good. A joint collaborative project funded through Innovate UK […]
Women in Engineering Day 2023
This Women in Engineering day we are celebrating the work and achievements of women engineers around the world. At Agri-EPI, we celebrate our CTO Trisha Toop and Agri-Tech Sustainability Analyst, Emily Laskin, who come from engineering backgrounds and who are leading Agri-EPI’s sustainability efforts. Trisha has an interdisciplinary background in engineering, genetics, and biochemistry and […]
Sustainable marine-based poultry feed alternative receives IUK funding
A consortium led by sustainable aquaculture innovators Aquanzo Ltd has received funding to investigate the feasibility of farming artemia, a small marine shrimp similar to krill, as an alternative circular produced marine protein for young chickens, known as broilers. Funded by Innovate UK in collaboration with Agri-EPI Centre and SRUC, the 24-month project will explore […]