Technology

enabling
regenerative
agriculture
Rebecca Lewis
Head of New Business &
Proposals
Engineering Precision
Innovation

• Observing, measuring and responding to variability

• Focus on business and environment sustainability
• Managing inputs precisely
• Optimising outputs
• Enabling more precise decision making – supporting
farmers
• Remote sensing and control
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Our ecosystem
Innovations from idea to reality
How can
regenerative
agriculture help us
achieve net zero
targets?
 What IS
regenerative
farming?
What are the barriers?
• Risk and uncertainty: cost, investment, productivity

• Trust: will it work for me? Who to believe?

Knowledge and information; demo, test & trial

• Data: no common definition of sustainability; how to

collect robust data; time/cost; data sharing across
platforms and systems

• Interoperability : Shared open Standards and

Definitions
How can technology help
transition to regenerative
agriculture?
• Collect data objectively, robustly and higher resolution than traditional
methods
• Bring together multiple sources to analyse data and support better and
faster decisions in complex environments
• Early diagnosis and intervention
• Overcome physical and infrastructure barriers
• Provide alternative solutions to problems
• Support people
• Work in tandem with both modern and traditional farming practices
Ultra-low emissions
sheep

• Identifying low methane outliers within a

flock to develop a breeding programme
• Project identified a genetic link to methane
emissions in sheep
Biodiversity Monitoring
24/7

• A suite of technologies to automate

monitoring of wildflowers, pollinators and
birds
• Augment the data collected by the ecologist
• Recommend actions to enhance biodiversity
in place
Vineyard 4.0: Digital
Infrastructure

• Open mapping definition to enable multiple

agri-tech devices to share and overlay data
(robotics, drones, conventional and manual
data collection)
• Enabling faster deployment, richer datasets
and deeper insights for enhanced decision
making
• Transferable from vineyard to other
structured farming environments
LightWeeder
• Concentrated Light Autonomous Weeding
and Scouting (CLAWS)
• Captures images of crop, counts weeds and
crop seedlings
• Non chemical weed control
• Operates day/night
How can regenerative agriculture help us
to achieve net zero targets?

• By not considering net zero in isolation of other aspects of environmental, social and
financial sustainability
• By celebrating the diversity of farming systems, not pitching one against another
• By using technology to support skills of farmers and advisors
• By developing a common definition of sustainability which can be measured
• By ensuring data platforms and technologies work together and not in siloes
• By sharing both the value and the cost of transition across supply chains and society
Thank you
E: rebecca.lewis@agri-
epicentre.com
W: agri-epicentre.com
P: 0131 239 7100