WM Morrison Supermarkets Limited

The NFU has set a goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the whole of agriculture in England and Wales by 2040\. Morrisons have pledged to be the first supermarket to be directly supplied by 'net zero' carbon British farms by 2030\. Artificial Insemination (AI) is not traditionally used in beef cattle reproduction with less than 1...

Single-use plastic packaging is now firmly on the public's mind. Whilst government and industry have started to look for solutions, most innovation to date has focused on lightweighting, creating alternative single-use materials to SUPP or improving collection and recycling systems. While these are valuable improvements, Unpackaged believes the focus shou...

CitywellnessLink envisions a future where it is easy and enjoyable for employees to take responsibility for their health, getting access to the right resources at the right time, thus enabling an increasing proportion of the older work-force to remain in productive employment until retirement age. The proportion of the adult population aged 50+ is project...

"There is currently extensive inefficiency in the UK beef sector. Producers routinely assess the performance of their animals by eye and frequently retain them on farm too long, resulting in animals becoming too fat. This leads to increased variable farm costs, reduced annual capacity of beef finishing units and sub-optimal price paid for carcasses -- for...

The goals of the project are: (i) to develop animal-mounted sensor systems that capture beef cattle feeding behaviour patterns and integrate this information with a feeding systems that accurately estimates feed intake at the individual animal level and (ii) to develop techniques for monitoring, in a commercial environment, the performance efficiency of i...

This project will measure new lamb carcass and meat quality (MQ) traits simultaneously, using non-inva-sive state-of-the-art technologies in live animals and in meat cuts, including computed tomography (CT) and Near Infrared spectroscopy, and use the data in a breeding programme, alongside carcass traits measured routinely in the abattoir, but not current...

This project aims to develop a non-intrusive system which will allow beef finishing units to identify the optimal time to market finished cattle. The system will combine innovative; animal handling; automated weighing; image capture; and analysis software to provide realtime objective feedback on animal condition, market value and optimal time to take to ...

The consortium will develop a health and condition monitoring platform, a foundation to creating decision support applications in order to catalyse improvements in production efficiency and a concomitant reduction in waste and losses in the ruminant protein supply chain. The solution will encompass reliable and continuous monitoring and sensing of specifi...