University of Warwick

About

Combining the strengths of its advanced engineering and plant science departments, University of Warwick has created an interdisciplinary group dedicated to tackling real-world industry challenges, accelerating and de-risking innovation for the agricultural sector.

Warwick Agri-Tech is focused on driving resilience, sustainability and profitability for UK agriculture. We work directly with growers and stakeholders across the value chain to understand the challenges of the industry and develop solutions that are both transformational and fit for purpose.

Agri-Tech innovation can stall between identifying the right problem, proving a technology in practice and achieving commercial scale. Warwick Agri-Tech helps industry overcome each of these barriers.

From Industry Challenge to the Right Solution

Agricultural challenges rarely sit within a single discipline. Warwick Agri-Tech connects growers and technology businesses with expertise across crop science, engineering, robotics, AI, materials and manufacturing, convening multidisciplinary teams around real industry needs to develop practical solutions with a clear pathway towards adoption.

Proving Technology in the Real World

Growers need confidence that new technology will work reliably before they can adopt it. Our Warwick Crop Centre provides commercial-scale fields, glasshouses and specialist facilities where Agri-Tech solutions can be developed, tested and validated in realistic agricultural environments before wider on-farm deployment.

From Prototype to Commercial Scale

Promising technologies can struggle to progress from prototype to robust, manufacturable and commercially viable products. Through WMG’s engineering, manufacturing and scale-up expertise, we help businesses improve design, production readiness, reliability and cost, accelerating the journey through the commercialisation ‘valley of death’ and towards market deployment.