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Funded by Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, this feasibility study brought together a consortium of partners to detect early signs of digital dermatitis lesions and lameness within dairy cattle. 

Meet the Team profiles UK Agri-Tech Centre individuals offering a glimpse into their stories and sector ambitions.
Meet Claire Hodge, Head of Agri-Systems.

Our Meet the Team series profiles the individuals who make up the UK Agri-Tech Centre, offering a glimpse into their stories and ambition for the sector. Meet Geoff Elliott, our Head of Business Development.  

With the broad sector coverage of the UK Agri-Tech Centre, it’s been great to get along to some of the events and shows that I haven’t attended for a while. It would have been back in my NFU days a decade or so ago that I last headed down to East Malling to attend Fruit Focus.

Our Meet the Team Series profiles the individuals who make up the UK Agri-Tech Centre, offering a glimpse into their stories and sector ambitions. Meet Stephen Burns, our Head of Projects.

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...

Our Meet the Team series profiles the UK Agri-Tech Centre individuals, offering a glimpse into their ambitions for the sector. Up next is Harry Langford, Head of Sustainability.

Our Meet the Team Series profiles the individuals who make up the new UK Agri-Tech Centre, offering you a glimpse into their stories and their ambition for the sector. Next up is Rebecca Lewis, our Head of Bid Development.  

Agri-tech is steadily gaining traction and credibility, revolutionising processes across the entire supply chain in the agri industries however, there are several myths about agri-tech that are impacting the adoption of new technologies and solutions.

Agricultural systems play a key role in carbon sequestration through land-use. However, this is countered by a need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whilst increasing nutrient efficiency.

The UK Agri-Tech Centre and Antler Bio are working on a groundbreaking project aimed at improving the productivity, sustainability and efficiency of UK dairy enterprises by monitoring the gene expression in a herd for a tailored approach to farming. 

A new international collaborative project, ‘SWEET SUCCESS: Driving net zero transition by accelerating bio-energy (sugarcane) production in South Africa’ is looking at increasing industrial-scale production of bioenergy.