Livestock
Livestock plays a key role in UK agriculture, helping to provide high quality food such as meat, milk and eggs, and contributing £14.7bn in output to the UK economy in 2020.
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Livestock is a wide ranging industry encompassing everything from extensive hill farming of sheep, to lowland dairy and beef production, and pig and poultry production. Within the UK, we have large, well established companies and emerging SMEs who are actively involved in innovation. The UK is also home to a strong research base in animal and veterinary science and related areas, including world leaders. Livestock farming represents a major land use in the UK and is a key part to tackling climate change and ensuring that we’re able to feed the rapidly growing global population.
We’ll share our deep knowledge of the livestock industry and will help you make powerful connections with key stakeholders in the sector.
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Full ADOPT Grant: Round 3
Opens: 21/08/2025 Closes: 15/10/2025
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £2 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.
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Farming Innovation Programme: Small R&D Partnership Projects Round 4
Opens: 15/09/2025 Closes: 05/11/2025
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.8 million for small R&D partnership projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Defra Farming Innovation Programme.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 4
Opens: 04/09/2025 Closes: 15/10/2025
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.
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Farmed animals and aquaculture SPARK Awards
Opens: 20/10/2025 Closes: 26/11/2025
UK-registered academic institutions or Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) can apply for up to £20,000 to collaborate with a UK-registered SME to accelerate the development of innovative products, processes or services to drive sustainable production within the UK farmed animal or aquacult
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SMART: SCOTLAND grants for feasibility studies for SMEs
Applications accepted year-round
The SMART: SCOTLAND grant, for SMEs in Scotland, supports feasibility studies for high-risk, highly ambitious R&D projects.
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Farming Innovation Programme: Feasibility Round 4
Opens: 13/10/2025 Closes: 03/12/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.8m for feasibility projects to address on-farm or post-farmgate challenges or opportunities.
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Related Events and Recordings
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Global Incubator Programme: Agri-Tech – Land x Launch Australia briefing event
08.00 - 09.00 | Online
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Related News
13/08/2025
Trilateral partnerships to drive innovation in climate-smart agriculture
Innovate UK has awarded funding to 30 projects promoting climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems. The projects are all collaborations between the UK, Brazil and Ghana or Nigeria.
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27/03/2025
New Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership Scoping Project reports published
Innovate UK Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa is bringing innovative people and organisations together through a range of initiatives.