UK Agri-Tech
Centre
Connecting you to expertise, networks, funding and facilities
The UK Agri-Tech Centre offers a complete life-cycle of support, driving agri-tech innovation and adoption through world-class facilities, expert knowledge and business support, saving you time and accelerating your progress.
We strengthen the connections between science, business and funders to accelerate research and development, tackling the agri-industry’s most critical challenges such as climate change, labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability.
As an independent company, we are trusted to provide leadership and guidance to progress transformational change for people and the planet while stimulating economic growth.
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UK Agri-Tech Centre welcomes the launch of the Regulatory Innovation Office
The UK Agri-Tech Centre has welcomed the UK Government’s recent launch of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which has been established to help bring the UK’s most promising technologies to the market faster.
Smart sensor technology for dairy farms
The challenge The dairy sector faces significant challenges in maintaining and improving productivity while ensuring animal health. Issues like lameness, poor body condition and prolonged calving intervals can severely limit efficiency. In both the UK and China, the...
The Healthy Heifer project: Two years later
The UK Agri-Tech Centre team recently revisited Mackie's to look at the lasting effects of the Healthy Heifer project, which concluded two years ago. This project took calf-monitoring technology to the next level, introducing new modules designed to track the...
Livestock and Aquaculture Innovation: Shaping the next ten years Report
The livestock and aquaculture sectors’ research and innovation 11 priorities have been identified in a new report.
“Livestock and Aquaculture Innovation: shaping the next ten years”, a UK Agri-Tech Centre report, with input from over 150 stakeholders was published today (July 17), outlining 11 priorities for the industries’ sustainability and resilience, including:
- Animal health and welfare
- Food safety, quality and nutritional content
- Climate-smart solutions, ecosystem and biodiversity improvement
- Optimised diets, land performance and systems
- Productivity, data assets and technology
Download the report to learn more