COVID-19 RESPONSE: CORNWALL FOOD & DRINK NETWORK
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted both the fragility and adaptability of Cornwall’s food supply chains. The disparities between...
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Precision Dairy Cow Welfare and production management
This project seeks to utilise new technologies to stimulate farmer knowledge development. (WP1) Precision Management of Dair...
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FIND
A project studying photosynthesis-related activity and fluorescence in a bid to develop an ‘early warning system’ for plant dis...
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Future Farm
‘Future Farm’ to redefine dairy research and learning A £3m dairy research centre will open at Duchy College in autumn 2020,...
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The Farm Crap App Pro
The Farm Crap App Pro is a collaborative project between Duchy College and Rothamsted Research North Wyke to develop an easy to...
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Edible Insects
The agricultural sector is facing critical challenges and we need innovative ways to increase food and animal feed production. ...
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Perception Drones
A particularly interesting Innovation Grant Applicant is Mark Polson, Director of Perception Drones, based near Falmouth. Mark ...
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SC Nutrition
Truro based SC Nutrition Ltd provides cattle nutrition and feed advice to a cohort of Dairy and Beef farms. Steve Chapman has o...
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Teagle
Technological advancement in machinery also plays a significant factor in Agri-tech; in a rapidly changing agricultural sector,...
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2 Minute Farmer (2MF)
Helping farmers break big questions into bitesized chunks, this project makes complicated conundrums more manageable. 2MF as...
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Lobster lineage
The National Lobster Hatchery is using genetic markers to develop new identification methods for the crustacean. The Cornish c...
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TOMS
The Toolbox of Multi-species Swards project, otherwise known as TOMS, is a collaborative project between the Rural Business Sch...
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Farm Visualisation (VizAg)
The Viz Ag project is a collaboration between a leading research centre, Rothamsted Research North Wyke, and a pioneering agric...
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Starling Management
Cutting-edge auditory technology developed in America could be used to help farmers experiencing problems with starling murmura...
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Anaerobic Digestion Optimisation
The efficiency of farm anaerobic digestion plants could get a boost, as University of Exeter academics scrutinise the bacterial...
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Botrytis Battle in Viticulture
British wine is experiencing a renaissance with many opportunities in the West Country, but botrytis remains a big issue for gr...
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ClimateHub
The warmer temperatures experienced over recent decades have contributed to the regional success of novel, high-value crops. Fu...
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Innovation at Chapman Machinery
James Chapman’s firm has expanded from being a one-man band when he launched it in 2010 to one that now employs about 10 people...
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Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB)
Bovine tuberculosis research seeks ‘joined-up’ solutions New approaches to tackling bovine tuberculosis (bTB) will be expl...
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PhosField
The PhosField testing kit could make real-time, in-the-field phosphorus testing a reality for growers. Breakthroughs could s...
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Cell Grazing
A project testing the potential of a system of precisely managed, intensive ‘cell grazing’ popular in New Zealand. This appr...
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The Soil Carbon Project
The Soil Carbon Project is an innovative project that aims to help Cornish farmers manage soils in a more sustainable and profi...
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Plant Factory
This new Agri-tech Cornwall initiative is harnessing developments in lighting technology to grow salad and medicinal crops in m...
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FABSOIL
FABsoil is a collaboration between the University of Plymouth and the Eden Project that will ‘create’ soil and then study its p...
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Speciality Crops
The project aims to help Cornish businesses research the added value for extracts of seaweeds, seawater and coastal plants towa...
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Graduate Support at IVF Bioscience
In partnership with Unlocking Potential, ACP has supported a role with Cornwall firm, IVF Bioscience. Jake Silcock took up t...
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Automated Brassica harvesting in Cornwall
This project will develop robotic systems for automating manual picking operations in the horticultural sector in Cornwall and ...
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