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**Welsh Wool into Premium Feed Ingredients** **The Challenge** Welsh farmers often pay more for shearing than they receive for shorn wool, a significant business problem. Current wool processing wastes valuable lanolin as expensive sludge, costing the industry £19.2 million annually (Standard Wool, 2025). Meanwhile, the UK imports £90 million worth of soy...

Food wasted every year is worth over £782 Billion; generating an estimated 8--10% of global greenhouse gas emissions (food loss and waste), and it takes up the equivalent of nearly 30 per cent of the world's agricultural land (UNEP Food Waste Index Report, 2024). In the UK alone, food waste totalled 10.7 million tons in 2021, contributing 25 million tons ...

This project, led by Crop Intellect in collaboration with NIAB, SRUC, and Branston Ltd., aims to innovate foliar fertilizer technology for potato crops using photocatalysis. By converting air pollutants like NOx into beneficial nitrates, this advanced fertilizer significantly reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers while maintaining crop yield and qual...

A consortium of industrial and research partners has come together to tackle the major environmental challenges impacting the River Wye. Nutrient management from poultry farming has been under increasing public scrutiny in the region due to phosphate pollution from poultry litter application damaging waterways. High ammonia emissions are another key issue...

The Accelerated Methane Reduction Breeding Programme addresses the problem of ewe flock enteric methane emissions by identifying and then accelerating the multiplication of low methane emissions ewes and rams. Current methane reduction breeding programmes project the rate of methane reduction at 1-1.5% per year however the Accelerated Methane Reduction Br...

CHROMACITY Ltd., a world leader in development of infra-red lasers, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) will work together to develop and test new instrument technology for real-time in-the-field measurement of common greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants for the quantification of concentrations and ar...

Currently, farmers have few ways to measure their farm's soil health other than labour-intensive manual sampling and inspection or hiring an expensive agronomy consultant. These solutions are not scalable and do not provide the continuous monitoring required to evidence improved farming techniques or baseline future biodiversity/natural capital markets. A...

TransformDairyNet will harness the expertise of 26 European partners to create 11 National Innovation Practice Hubs and a European Knowledge and Innovation Network of dairy farmers, veterinarians, advisors, supply chain actors, farmer organisations, researchers and policy makers, to work together to upscale cow calf contact (CCC) dairy production and beyo...

**Pioneering Sustainable Livestock Enhancement in Eastern Innovation Zone** East-Anglian-based Oxcel is pioneering an innovative water enhancement technology-as-service to transform productivity, efficiency, and animal welfare in the UK's Eastern Innovation Zone's intensive livestock industry. Collaborative large-scale trials with Scotland's Rural College...

Calves from dairy herds are the foundation animals for dairy farms and the dairy-beef industry, but several diseases are endemic. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) affects 11% of all calves and is the leading cause of poor performance (and mortality) in cattle <10 months of age, costing UK farmers ~£80Mp.a.(veterinary treatments, reduced lifetime productiv...

The OPTI-BEEF project, initiated in May 2019, was awarded substantial funding of £1.2m from UK Research and Innovation, through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. This support was part of a broader initiative to bolster 'Productive and Sustainable Crop and Ruminant Agricultural Systems'. Over its four-year duration, OPTI-BEEF aimed to create an enhan...

MI:RNA Ltd is a veterinary diagnostics company with a unique, patent-pending, biomarker testing technology and we aim to use our expertise to explore the early and accurate diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).This project builds upon our previous successful Innovate UK funded trial which demonstrated the potential of our technology to detect early-stag...