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The Future of Farming: A Briefing Series

As part of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, a new series of breakfast briefings detailing the latest Agri-Tech research and how it will impact on farming in the future has commenced in Lincolnshire. Farmers from across the county attended the first briefing event, organised by the University of...

LIAT to sponsor the Lincolnshire Farming Conference 2017

We are delighted to announce the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology will be sponsoring the Lincolnshire Farming Conference on Tuesday 28th February 2017. Held at the Lincolnshire Showground, home of the historic Lincolnshire Show, the event will combine talks, case studies and one-to-one sessions with industry experts with the opportunity to...

LIAT’s very own Thorvald featured on BBC’s Countryfile

BBC One’s flagship Sunday evening programme, Countryfile, this week featured the pioneering work of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT). As part of the show’s Lincolnshire programme, Director of LIAT Professor Simon Pearson, introduced the University’s Thorvald robot, which is designed to support a range of agri-tech experiments...

Robots emerging as agricultural co-workers

Advanced engineering could be the solution for the sustainable intensification of agriculture, as technology for producing service robots reaches maturity. An expert in robotics from the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln, UK, will discuss the latest developments in the sector during Agri-Tech East’s ‘Pollinator’ event on...