Funding and business support to accelerate your agri-tech ambition. The UK Agri-Tech Centre can accelerate your global agri-tech ambitions and drive impactful and rapid change, connecting you to expertise, networks, facilities and funding opportunities.
Do you have an agri-tech idea that focuses on robotics, automation, advanced sensors or AI?
We help businesses bring their agri-tech innovations to market with expert advice, testing facilities and data validation. Get in touch and see how we can accelerate your ambitions.
Read on to find out about current funding opportunities to help accelerate your business’ aspirations:
ADOPT (Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies) offers farmer‑led funding for on‑farm trials that generate, test and demonstrate innovative solutions to real‑world agricultural challenges. It provides both Support Grants and Full Project Grants to help farmers, growers and foresters explore new technologies and practices. ADOPT – Farming Innovation Programme
The ADOPT Support Hub delivered by ADAS, the UK Agri‑Tech Centre and the Soil Association – helps applicants with guidance, expert connections, trial support and resources to develop successful on‑farm innovation projects. Learn more and access the hub at: https://farmpep.net/adopt/front
Funding Opportunity: Full ADOPT Grant Round 6
Deadline: April 8
The aim of this competition is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions and demonstrate that they will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities
Funding Opportunity: ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 6
Deadline: February 25
This competition is designed for farmers, growers and foresters based in England who are keen to test and trial new ideas or solutions on-farm and require support to develop a Full ADOPT Grant application.
Funding Opportunity: Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation FS
Deadline: March 11
UK registered businesses and research and technology organisations (RTOs) can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies. These will make supply chains more resource efficient and resilient through addressing cross cutting challenges.
Funding Opportunity: Horizon Europe 2026-27: EU Missions – Adaptation to Climate Change
Deadline: September 2026
The European Commission has published all of the 2026-27 Horizon Europe Work Programmes, which list the funding opportunities under the 2026-27 call topics.
Funding Opportunity: Research Grant Competition
Deadline: February 20, 2026
The HDRF Small Grant Competition provides funding of up to £27,500, tenable for up to 24-months, for research projects of relevance to dairy farmers in Scotland.
Projects may concern:
- Health and welfare of dairy animals
- Dairy production, nutrition and systems
- Agronomy and soil science relevant to dairy production
- Socioeconomics of dairy production
- Milk processing and marketing.
Projects should have a research partner based in Scotland, although in exceptional cases this is not essential.
Funding Opportunity: SMART: Scotland grants
Deadline: Ongoing
The SMART: SCOTLAND grant is one of our research and development (R&D) grants that aims to support high-risk, highly ambitious projects. It provides support to conduct feasibility studies. It’s only available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Scotland, and supports activities that have a commercial endpoint.
The SMART grant aims to support our priority areas for economic transformation. These are:
- Creating an internationally competitive energy transition industry in Scotland
- Scaling the impact of Scotland’s innovation strengths into high-growth industries of the future
- Driving capital investment to deliver a step-change in Scotland’s productivity
Funding Opportunity: TMAF
Multiple grant opportunities available for:
- Arable research relevant to East Anglia that improves productivity while reducing negative impact on the natural environment.
- PhD projects – in collaboration with other funders and partners.
- Individuals and their continual professional development (CPD) at all levels.
- Initiatives to inform a wide audience – from school age children to adults – about agricultural practices.
Projects that make use of TMAF farms, complement current or previous TMAF-supported projects, contribute long-standing data sets, or offer clear ways to share information and demonstrate results are welcomed.
If you have any questions about the above funding opportunities or want to find out how we can make your ambitions a reality, get in touch at: [email protected].
These funding opportunities were last updated on 11/02/26
