🌱Are you a business working in farming, agriculture or agri-tech and looking for funding? (original) (raw)
Innovate UK DEFRA Grant Funding for Agriculture and Farming
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🌱Are you a business working in farming, agriculture or agri-tech and looking for funding? A number of Innovate UK and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) grant funding calls are currently open, supporting everything from early-stage trials to large-scale manufacturing. 🌾ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 8 The Department for Environment, Food or Rural Affairs has been allocated up to £100,000 to provide support from the ADOPT facilitator Support Grants. Funding will be in the form of a grant of £2,500 per successful applicant. The aim of this competition is to help farmers, growers or foresters based in England to test and trial new ideas or solutions on-farm and provide support to develop a Full ADOPT Grant application. Opens: 15th Apr 2026 | Closes: 27th May 2026 Full details: https://lnkd.in/ezx7wmKe🌾AgriScale – Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Industrial Research UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for projects to close product technology gaps that are preventing movement towards commercial acceptance, scale up and manufacture. The aim of this competition is to enable Agri-tech innovators to advance product performance and reliability of their manufacturing and supply chain capability. Opens: 30th Mar 2026 | Closes: 3rd Jun 2026 Full details: https://lnkd.in/e5eR6fvR🌾Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Experimental Development UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to accelerate Agri-tech manufacturing. The aim of this competition is to enable Agri-tech innovators to advance product performance and reliability of their manufacturing and supply chain capability to achieve production at scale. Opens: 30th Mar 2026 | Closes: 3rd Jun 2026 Full details: https://lnkd.in/e9vQ8Hj6🌾Full ADOPT Grant: Round 7 Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. Projects must have the potential to significantly improve productivity, resilience and/or sustainability and progression towards net zero farming. Opens: 9th Apr 2026 | Closes: 3rd Jun 2026 Full details: https://lnkd.in/enDxi7ZRWhether you have a clear project idea or need help exploring your funding options, now’s the time to begin preparing as deadlines are fast approaching. Book an appointment with our funding expert: https://lnkd.in/eE8GByXvSend us a message: https://lnkd.in/dtvjNtqv #InnovateUK #DEFRA #GrantFunding #Agriculture #Farming #Innovation Esther Lawrence | Alice Law | Paula Smith | Clare Fairfield
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