Access facilities, farms and validation expertise.
Connect with specialists who can help you test ideas, solve challenges and identify opportunities.
Access programmes, expertise and practical support to help move your innovation closer to market.
Need help solving a challenge in production, processing or the supply chain? We'll help connect you with relevant technologies, expertise and innovators.
Have an idea that could improve how your farm operates? ADOPT provides funding and support for farmer-led trials that test practical solutions in real-world conditions
Need help identifying your next step?
Tell us about your challenge and we'll connect you with the right person.
We help businesses understand industry challenges, connect with farmers, growers and supply-chain organisations, and access the expertise needed to prove, build and scale technology.
Developing technology for livestock systems?
Bethan helps businesses tackle challenges around animal health, welfare and productivity.
Not sure what comes next?
Michael helps businesses navigate opportunities, support programmes and routes to growth.
Looking to understand industry needs?
Amie connects technology developers with farmers, growers, food producers, retailers and supply-chain organisations, helping promising solutions move closer to adoption.
Need access to facilties?
Les helps businesses access facilities, workspace and practical support that enables technologies and businesses to develop and grow.
Want to solve a real industry challenge?
Helen helps businesses understand the needs of farmers, growers, food producers and the wider supply chain, ensuring technologies are shaped around market demand.
Need stronger evidence?
Deborah helps businesses, farmers and industry partners turn data into insights that support better decisions, technology adoption and long-term impact.
See how innovators are proving solutions, building businesses and scaling through real-world testing and support.
From prototype to commercial growth
Building confidence through real-world validation
Helping a breakthrough technology find its market
Turning an idea into a validated solution
Validating technology in real-world dairy systems
Creating the space to scale
Building confidence through real-world trials.
Accelerating the route to market
Want to see what’s possible?
Explore more agri-tech success stories and discover how businesses are overcoming technical and commercial challenges.
Discover grants, programmes and support that could help you test technology, generate evidence and accelerate growth.
Access specialist facilities, commercial farms, growers and testing environments across the UK to generate trusted evidence and build confidence in your technology.
Develop, prototype and scale next-generation technologies with access to prototyping workshops, business incubation space, expert support and industry connections.
Develop and validate vertical farming technologies through controlled trials, optimisation and commercial-scale validation.
Generate independent performance data for crop protection technologies through commercial-scale glasshouse trials in controlled environments.
Run trials exploring how natural light and UV exposure can improve crop resilience and growth by testing growing systems, inputs and greenhouse technologies.
Create and validate smarter crop monitoring and plant health solutions using advanced imaging and phenotyping technologies.
Reduce waste and extend shelf-life through commercial-scale testing of storage, packaging and supply chain innovations.
Generate trusted evidence for dairy technologies using precision monitoring, lifetime animal health data and commercial dairy systems.
Test and validate precision-livestock technologies including robotics, sensors and AI, in a fully automated data-rich commercial dairy environment.
Validate livestock technologies by comparing technology performance across indoor and outdoor pig systems at a unique commercial-scale facility.
Trial and validate aquaculture technologies in highly controlled marine environments designed to improve welfare, productivity and sustainability.
We help agri-tech businesses prove, build and scale technology.
Through our national network, you can access expert support, specialist facilities and real-world farm environments to test, improve and prove your technology.
That includes:
specialists
across agriculture, aquaculture and business growth
facilities
across the UK, through our own sites and partner network
commercial farms
for testing, trialling and demonstration