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Big Data project New Zealand

Big data to improve beef and dairy productivity in New Zealand

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”.
Paraguay Satellite Demonstration Farm

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.

TailTech

To develop an early warning system for tail biting in pigs; a significant health and welfare challenge in pig production

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.

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.

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.

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