Access facilities, farms and validation expertise.
Connect with specialists who can help you test ideas, solve challenges and identify opportunities.
Access programmes, expertise and practical support to help move your innovation closer to market.
Need help solving a challenge in production, processing or the supply chain? We'll help connect you with relevant technologies, expertise and innovators.
Have an idea that could improve how your farm operates? ADOPT provides funding and support for farmer-led trials that test practical solutions in real-world conditions
Need help identifying your next step?
Tell us about your challenge and we'll connect you with the right person.
Whether you’re developing solutions for crops, livestock or aquaculture or need engineering space, our network of 43 facilities across the UK provides support needed to bring your technology closer to adoption.
From testing and validation to adoption and commercial growth, our specialists help businesses overcome technical and commercial challenges.
Developing technology for livestock systems?
Bethan helps businesses tackle challenges around animal health, welfare and productivity.
Need evidence your technology works?
Alexander helps businesses generate real-world data through trials and validation.
Building robotics or AI solutions for agriculture?
Sami helps businesses move technologies closer to practical farm adoption.
Need better insight from your data?
Deborah helps businesses use modelling and analytics to support decision-making and innovation.
Not sure what comes next?
Michael helps businesses navigate opportunities, support programmes and routes to growth.
Developing technology for dairy farming?
Mike helps businesses test and demonstrate innovations in commercial dairy systems.
Need access to expertise?
We’ll help connect you with the right specialist, facility, programme or partnership to move your take your innovation further, faster.
Targeted support designed to help agri-tech businesses prove value, build confidence and scale faster.
Explore new international markets with confidence.
(registration open)
The Global Growth Accelerator helps agri-tech businesses validate solutions with end users, build local partnerships and unlock global opportunities. Through in-country pilots and market connections, you can reduce risk, build credibility and accelerate international growth.
Turn Net Zero innovation into real-world impact.
FASTA supports businesses to validate and demonstrate solutions that help agriculture reduce emissions and improve sustainability. Generate evidence, prove value to end users and build confidence in technologies that support the transition to Net Zero.
Overcome business growth challenges and move your technology forward.
Agri-Tech Solution Sprints provide focused expert support to help you tackle barriers, build confidence and accelerate progress – quickly. Whether you’re refining your business model, validating an opportunity or navigating adoption challenges, you’ll gain practical guidance tailored to your needs.
Drive on-farm adoption through farmer-led innovation trials
(registration open)
ADOPT supports collaborative farmer-led trials that test and demonstrate solutions to farming challenges in real-world conditions. Generate trusted evidence, prove value on farm and share practical insights that help accelerate adoption.
See how innovators are proving solutions, building businesses and scaling through real-world testing and support.
From prototype to commercial growth.
Building confidence through real-world validation.
Helping a breakthrough technology find its market
Turning an idea into a validated solution
Validating technology in real-world dairy systems
Creating the space to scale
Building confidence through real-world trials.
Accelerating the route to market
Want to see what’s possible?
Explore more agri-tech success stories and discover how businesses are overcoming technical and commercial challenges.
Explore opportunities to learn, connect and move your business forward with funding opportunities, ADOPT fund and business support programmes.
We help agri-tech businesses prove, build and scale technology.
Through our national network, you can access expert support, specialist facilities and real-world farm environments to test, improve and prove your technology.
That includes:
specialists
across agriculture, aquaculture and business growth
facilities
across the UK, through our own sites and partner network
commercial farms
for testing, trialling and demonstration
