GRID
This demonstration project builds on previous work with radar carried out in the UK to develop crop growth models for a variety of arable crops.
A UK-New Zealand Agri-Tech partnership
Agri-EPI Centre, United Kingdom, and Massey University, New Zealand are collaborating to understand the variation in productivity across New Zealand’s beef and dairy sector, and how this variation relates to greenhouse gas emissions per unit of food produced.
DRAGON
DRAGON aims to overcome one of the main challenges in Precision Agriculture (PA): low rate of adoption of PA technologies and practices, especially concerning the “big data in agriculture”.
On and off highway communications and safety system analysis
Researching and evaluating current and future communications and safety systems required for off-road vehicles to operate in compliance with safety regulations in on-road situations. Commercially available sensing packages will be evaluated and subsequently the most applicable will be integrated and tested on pre-existing autonomous agricultural vehicles.
KASP Genomic Selection
This project directly addresses the challenge of improved food security and livelihoods for international development. For about half a billion people in Asia, most of them poor, rice provides over 50% of the caloric supply so the size and stability of the rice harvest is crucial. The simplest way to increase yields is by the breeding of new rice varieties with greater resistance to diseases and pests and improved tolerance to stresses.
Paraguay Satellite Demonstration Farm
With Innovate UK funding, Agri-EPI Centre is helping the farm to connect the cows ‘to the cloud’; moving away from analogue to digital collection of data that is accessible 24/7; providing an initial monitoring test facility to validate best-of-breed British technologies that have potential to significantly improve agricultural output in Paraguay.
Precision Soil Mapping
The research relates to the development of novel approaches for precision farming and food security. This is a subject of interest in the general public, and accordingly the project has generated substantial press and media interest. The project has been reported in a number of Industry and practitioner media, culminating in a interview on Radio Four Farming Today. These non-academic impacts reveal the extent of the wider interest themes that the project research topic relates to.
