Projects

Here at Agri-EPI Centre, we’re on a mission to become a world-leading centre for excellence in engineering and precision agriculture across the livestock, arable, aquaculture and horticulture sectors. Within every part of the agricultural supply chain we operate a wide range of agriculture technology industry-led activities in applied research and development, demonstration, training and education.

Each of our project case studies have been designed to give a broad and transparent overview of each stage of the project. Learn more about each of our individual agriculture technology projects.

Agriculture technology projects, research & developments

Bridging the gap between the agriculture technology industry & research

Healthy Heifer: A precision solution for dairy farmers

A novel technology delivering on-site data about individual animals’ genetics, nutrition, environment, activity and health to dairy and livestock farmers in real time.

Agritech boost for Kenyan ‘superfood’ and smallholder sustainability

Through a purpose-built, precision farming platform, up to 2000 farmers in the Busia and Siaya regions of Western Kenya will participate in a game-changing collaborative agri-tech project.

SmARtview cow recognition and data retrieval

Typically, a vet or farmer faces the time-consuming process of examining a cow, then going to the farm office to review paperwork or PC-based records before determining treatment or intervention. SmARtview cow recognition and instant data retrieval makes the decision-making process faster, more efficient and effective.

SEAcap 6000 scottish salmon farming open water engineering

Revolutionising Scottish salmon farming with open water engineering

Currently in detailed design stage, the SeaCAP 6000 is a new open water engineering solution set to revolutionise the protection, health and environmental impact of farmed salmon, whilst boosting the industries long-term productivity and profits.

Making farming more sustainable with ultra-fine bubble technology

Revolutionizing irrigation, fertilizing, spraying and disease prevention and more, ultra-fine bubbles can radically improve food security and environmentally-friendly farming techniques. With the ability to carry gases and different substances on their surface, their stability and longevity means that they have great potential for use in agriculture.

The world’s first bulk grain-monitoring robot

Set to drastically reduce post-harvest grain loss from moisture, pests and mould, Crover is an innovative new grain ‘swimming’ robot currently in the test phase of its development. Unlike current grain monitoring solutions, Crover’s unique robotic probe capability autonomously collects samples to detect spoilage faster.

Agri-EPI agricultural projects | GroWise & GRID | Unleashing satellite technology to improve credit lending to Southern African smallholdings

Boosting Lending Potential With Satellite Imagery System GRID

Known as GroWise, the project has paved the way for the implementation of ‘GRID’ technology. GRID is a Crop Growth Index (CGI) service that uses synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, optical satellite data and precision weather information to model a variety of common African crops on a crop-specific basis.

Hands Free Farm – creating the world’s first autonomous farm

The Hands Free Farm project launched in May 2019 following the end of the award-winning Hands Free Hectare feasibility study, which was the first in the world to plant, tend and harvest a crop without a driver in the seat or agronomists on the ground.

Precision agriculture by OPTI-BEEF

The project integrates automated data gathered across the whole life of individual beef animals (from calf all the way to the carcass). The purpose of this is to create an enhanced decision support platform to modernise, standardise, and drive efficiency improvements across the UK beef supply chain.

Detecting pig tail biting by TailTech

Tail biting in pigs is viewed as one of the most widespread and seriously aggressive behaviours that can manifest in a pigpen. Discover TailTech — a radical high-tech solution devised by Scottish scientists as an alternative to the controversial last-resort practice of tail docking in piglets.

Data-driven precision agriculture by DRAGON

Agri-EPI Centre is a core partner within the data-driven agriculture services and skill acquisition project DRAGON. The aim of the project is to enable communication skill transfer and knowledge exchange between research organisations and end users through big data and effective data analytics.

Agri-EPI Connectivity 5G RuralFirst South West Dairy Development Centre

Wireless and mobile connectivity with 5G RuralFirst

A co-innovation project to create rural test-beds and trials for 5G wireless and mobile connectivity across the Orkney Islands, Shropshire, and Somerset. 5G held particular promise for boosting download speeds, lowering latency, and laying the foundations for improving connectivity for billions of devices.

Precision Agricultural solution Well-Calf seeks to boost dairy-beef production

Precision agriculture by WELL-CALF

This £1 million project aims to develop the first cloud-based decision support platform to serve different levels of decision-making on dairy and beef farms. WELL-CALF’s precision agriculture technology provides support for farm-level decisions (e.g. health management, nutrition) all the way through to policy and practice decisions at the systems level.

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.

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.

On and off-highway communications and safety systems

The purpose of the CAV3 project was to evaluate commercially-available sensing packages to identify which on and off-highway communication and safety systems should be integrated and tested on pre-existing autonomous agricultural vehicles.

Improving farmers' livelihoods through better rice varieties - KASP project gene research genomic

KASP genomic solution

This project is developing LGC Biosearch Technologies’ proprietary genotyping technology (called KASP) by providing thousands of new KASP markers to aid Asian rice breeding programmes and accelerate the breeding of new rice varieties with greater disease resistance.

Precision soil mapping

This large-scale collaborative project aims to integrate satellite data with the UK’s most comprehensive soil datasets from Cranfield Uni and JHI to produce a ‘precision soil map’.

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Projects

Agriculture technology projects, research & developments

Bridging the gap between the agriculture technology industry & research

Healthy Heifer: A precision solution for dairy farmers

Hands Free Farm – creating the world’s first autonomous farm

Precision agriculture by OPTI-BEEF

Detecting pig tail biting by TailTech

Data-driven precision agriculture by DRAGON

Wireless and mobile connectivity with 5G RuralFirst

Precision agriculture by WELL-CALF

A UK-New Zealand agri-tech partnership

Paraguay satellite demonstration farm

On and off-highway communications and safety systems

KASP genomic solution

Precision soil mapping

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