A report funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) says that rapid and urgent action on food is needed if the UK is to reboot its flagging economy, save the NHS billions, ensure national food security, and meet climate commitments....
A project through the government funded Digital Dairy Chain initiative to use data to improve dairy chain efficiency in southwest Scotland and Cumbria, has resulted in an innovative calf environment monitoring system. The Digital...
LS Plant Breeding (LSPB) has appointed Katie Noel as wheat breeder. She succeeds Peter Jackson who is returning to the University of Reading after three years with LSPB. Dr Noel studied plant science at the University of Nottingham,...
Crover, the Edinburgh-based company behind a robotic system for monitoring and sampling grain in store, has won £366,000 in innovation funding from the Defra Farming Innovation Programme within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The...
Dairy herd data and analysis company NMR and milk processor First Milk are to work together in a government funded project to provide and use relevant data to improve dairy chain efficiency. The project, to operate in the southwest Scotland and Cumbria region, is...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded £400,000 for research into higher cattle fertility and breeding productivity in UK and Canadian dairy and beef herds. The project will be delivered by an agritech and biotech consortium led by Ripon-based RAFT Solutions....