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Farmers, businesses and researchers are being invited to link up to apply for their share of £16.5m of Defra funding for sustainable farming projects. The

Muddy Machines, an agri-tech company that helps automate crop harvesting, has unveiled a new round of seed funding of £1.5m to help spearhead its Sprout robots.

Projects which aim to boost food security in Scotland while improving the environment will benefit from a major funding programme worth £200m.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced the winners of a combined £8 million in funding, as part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme. The feasibility projects competition was created to back new and innovative solutions, aid research and collaboration, and encourage collaboration across the UK’s farmers, growers and foresters. The competition, managed by UKRI’s transforming food production challenge and delivered by Innovate UK, ran from October to December 2021.

Over twenty farm projects have secured Defra funding worth £8 million, including advanced aeroponic systems and field-tested harvesting robots.

Defra’s £8m Farming Innovation Programme will see a robotic courgette harvester and an automated weight tracker for beef cattle secure a slice of its