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Horticulture is suffering acute productivity challenges with the running of farms at current scale becoming impossible.The sector is facing a chronic labour crisis, which accounts for over 50% of growing costs for high cropping soft-fruits such as strawberries. A rise in farm-gate strawberry prices of just 23% against minimum wage increases of 77% since 2...

Current tree fruit production applies crop management products uniformly across each orchard, however, orchards exhibit substantial variation across them and between trees. Even neighbouring trees have very different growth and crop loads. Treating all trees uniformly regardless of their size, density, crop load, or health limits yield, is inefficient, an...

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...

Horticulture is suffering a labour productivity crisis. A rise in farm gate prices for strawberries since 2010 of just 23% \[_Defra_\] versus minimum wage increases of 77% in the same period \[_HomeOffice_\] have squeezed growers' margins to the absolute limit. Meanwhile a lack of labour availability, with 44% of growers employing seasonal labourers repor...

The UK wine industry is growing rapidly in size and in sophistication. But even as British wines are winning more and more awards, the industry faces rising labour costs, changing climate conditions, and pressure to reduce reliance on fertilisers and chemical agents. We believe the solution to these challenges is to adopt a data-driven approach to farming...

Viticulture is an expanding sector in the UK with up to 500 vineyards and an increasing interest to expand established areas, but the sector is currently at a crossroads. Advancements in digital technology deployed in other sectors make it easier to capture and manage data and gain insights for effective decision making. Growers, agronomists and AgriTech ...

Farming of crops, horticulture and cereals has seen unprecedented challenges, with sustainability issues, workforce shortages and tightening financial constraints exacerbated by COVID-19 and Brexit. There is a growing need to find alternative transformative solutions. The proposed fully-autonomous machinery offers the potential to ease the burden of crop-...

This ambitious innovative project is to deliver an Automatic Track Width Adjustable System (ATWAS) for Agriculture Mobile Robots (AMRs). With a unique controls system and mechatronics design, the ATWAS system can automatically adjust the track width of the AMRs to the desired configuration within 60 seconds. By providing this much-needed adaptivity, the A...