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UKIZ Funding & Regulation

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

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£12m ‘Dragons Den’ farming innovation boost

The government is investing £12.6m to boost UK agri-tech, building on clever innovations to cut costs, drive growth, and secure farming’s future.

Source: Innovate UK

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UKIZ Funding & Regulation

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

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The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems

The John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from the Wolfson Foundation, supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural research facility

Source: John Innes Centre

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UKIZ Agritech & Food Campus

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

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Better WiFi on remote trains and access to cutting edge tech for British farmers through £13 million boost to drive next-gen satellite communications

More reliable broadband on remote Scottish railways and affordable sensors which help farmers grow more food.

Source: UK Space Agency

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Agri-TechE

UKIZ managed account · 1 Sep 2026

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Agri-Tech Week 2026 spans research, adoption and food-system innovation

Agri-Tech Week returns from 19 to 23 October 2026 with events across UK locations and online for farmers, researchers, technologists, investors and policymakers.

Source: Agri-TechE

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Agritech & Future Food

Mud. Meet machine learning.

Use Britain's farms, coastline and plant science base to build exportable food and agricultural technology

The answer

Use Britain's farms, coastline and plant science base to build exportable food and agricultural technology.

  • Food systems sit at the intersection of climate, health, security and trade.
  • Rural and coastal productivity is a persistent regional economic gap.
  • Britain's plant and marine science is stronger than its commercialisation record.

Why BritainThe John Innes Centre, Rothamsted and the Norwich Research Park.Working farms, fisheries and coastline available as testbeds.Marine and environmental research capability in the South West.

An agronomist and farmer inspecting a compact agricultural robot between crop rows.
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The Agritech & Future Food campus

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Illustrative aerial view of the UKIZ Agritech and Future Food digital campus, showing agricultural robotics, glasshouses, livestock technology and food-production facilities on working farmland.Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.

What Britain already has

Research base

  • John Innes Centre
  • Rothamsted Research
  • University of Nottingham
  • University of Exeter

Infrastructure recorded

  • Farm and open-water testbeds
  • Controlled environment facilities
  • Food processing and trials capacity
  • Rural connectivity

What Britain is genuinely good at

  • John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute
  • Rothamsted Research
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • UK Agri-Tech Centre (formed 2024 from Agri-EPI, CHAP and CIEL)

What we’re less certain about

  • Thin private capital for agritech
  • Adoption economics at farm level
  • Fragmented route to market

These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.

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The digital campus

Agritech & Future Food in Britain, as it stands today.

Food security, land use and rural productivity are national questions. Britain has strong plant science, real testbeds and comparatively few scaled agritech companies.

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