Hoofcount is a 10-year-old family business, focusing on how to keep cows’ hoofs clean and healthy. Their project is aimed at using vision to develop an early detection lameness monitoring system. It has won funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, for feasibility studies combining innovation with research and collaboration with farmers and growers.
Antobot’s novel crop scouting robot, Insight, targets the high-value fruit sector, with the aim of digitalising at the earliest growth stages. The product is highly innovative by using advanced technologies (e.g., autonomous navigation, artificial intelligence) at an affordable level – a key factor for wide adoption.
SEM will develop a sustainable, zero-waste, on-farm slurry management system (H2OPE) to transform dairy slurry into valuable by-products. SEM’s patented H2OPE system comprises high-efficiency thermal desorption, coupled with proprietary and off-the-shelf treatment stages.
This project will develop and test a selective prototype automated broccoli harvesting machine on a commercial broccoli farm to reduce the post-Brexit issue of harvest labour shortage, increase crop yields by harvesting more of the broccoli heads, and recover the 80% of the broccoli plant that is currently left on the field unharvested and that has the potential to be valorised into nutritious plant-based food products.
Oxi-Tech seek to demonstrate that ozonated water can provide a chemical-free alternative for cleaning robotic milking machinery while lowering both costs and environmental impact. This will be demonstrated at the SWDDC with in-kind support from RMS (GEA’s service providers in the South-West).
A novel technology delivering on-site data about individual animals’ genetics, nutrition, environment, activity and health to dairy and livestock farmers in real time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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