Pasture Optimisation for Resilience and Livelihoods (PASTORAL) will work with farmers to co-design a new digital platform to help improve data to inform on-farm decision making to increase farm productivity and carbon efficiency using satellite data to plan pasture management.
 

 

Innovative Farmers is collaborating with Environment Systems and the University of Edinburgh as part of a major two-year industrial research project under the Government’s Farming Innovation Programme. The project, which is funded by Innovate UK, will combine satellite data with advanced algorithms, to deliver weekly intelligence on grass biomass and carbon budgets through a co-designed platform.

The project is seeking livestock farmers from a diverse range of beef, dairy and lamb enterprises to join the project to share with us information about current and future pasture performance needs and understand the way in which satellite data can help to support this.

Find out more at https://innovativefarmers.org/news/2022/january/27/pastoral-co-designing-a-past…

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