Agri-Epi Centre Limited

**ChirrupNano -- making nature monitoring simpler and cheeper!** Here's something exciting to tweet about! In collaboration with the farming research organisation Agri-EPI Centre, Chirrup.ai is launching a groundbreaking project called **ChirrupNano**, an affordable solution for measuring and managing biodiversity. This innovative tool uses birdsong as a ...

This proposal builds on the work of the Regulatory Horizon Council, summarised in their 2023 report _Unlocking the potential of robotics in Agriculture and Horticulture,_ and follows the Government's Food Strategy (2022), Defra's Automation in Horticulture Review (2022), and Defra's _Independent review into labour shortages in the food supply chain_ (2023...

**Background** OxiTech's **Pulse Oxidation** technology is a unique, patented, system that creates charged Oxygen within water by using just tap water and small amounts of electricity to create Ozone in-situ, thus chemical free disinfection with a multitude of benefits to dairy farmers: * **Green-tech:** Removing toxic chemicals from the cleaning process ...

Since the first known examples of grain storage dating back to ~11,000 years ago in the Jordan valley, the process of storing grain (e.g. whole wheat/barley/oilseeds in sheds and silos) has been a critical part of the agriculture industry, essential to preserving the grain's quality and value, as well as to bridge the gap between harvest and its subsequen...

The agricultural value of seaweeds has been well known for hundreds - if not thousands - of years. Coastal farmers have gathered seaweed from the shore for centuries in Britain. Today, there is a renewed and growing interest in seaweed agricultural applications due to the unique biochemical profile of macroalgae. This project will research the optimum low...

Viticulture is currently the fastest expanding UK agricultural sector; there has been a rapid recent growth in both the number and total hectarage of UK vineyards, demonstrating a marked increase in investor confidence. Nevertheless, despite an overall warming climate, significant ongoing economic losses continue to be incurred in vineyards in the UK and ...

Along with water and sunlight, nitrogen is essential to the growth of plants and life on the planet Earth. Until the early 20th century, farmers were relying on manure as a scarce commodity to enrich their crops. The Haber-Bosch process enabled the production of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. Agricultural productivity skyrocketed and food became more avai...

UK fruit growers are facing a major challenge, exacerbated by the diminishing availability of plant protection products (PPP's): controlling crop disease. The phasing out of traditional PPP's, driven by environmental concerns, has added complexity to this issue. Despite utilisation of PPP's, UK apple growers experience an annual crop loss of approximately...

Lameness in dairy cows is an industry-wide issue, effecting farmers' bottom lines and cow welfare, leading to production inefficiencies and increased carbon emission per litre of milk produced. Considered to be the second only to mastitis in cost to the national dairy herd (£53.5 million per year (Royal Veterinary College, 2022)) and the third most common...

Bradford Farming is the in-hand farming business of Bradford Estates, located in the Shropshire/Staffordshire borders, farming 5,000 acres producing combineable crops, potatoes, lettuce, wildflower seed, and sheep as part of a sustainable mixed farming system. We propose to explore the feasibility of developing a new weed suppressant product for the horti...

One of the most essential tasks involved in the production of lamb is the weighing of growing lambs in order to monitor their liveweight gain and suitability for sale. However, this is a time-consuming process and can be stressful to the lambs being gathered and weighed (Dwyer and Gauci, 2004) leading to considerable weighing intervals, limiting the use o...

The **FLEXBOT** project aims to improve labour productivity in English soft fruit farming operations by integrating collaborative logistics robots (cobots) into the farms. Lead partner **Fox Robotics** will develop and showcase three primary outcomes: demonstrating the feasibility of supply chain interoperability between suppliers, exploring a sustainable...