UK Agri-Tech Centre - Beard Hill Dairy

The UK Agri-Tech Centre

Connecting agri-tech businesses to commercial success

The South West Dairy Development Centre run in collaboration with the UK Agri-Tech Centre provides businesses with access to validate their technology in an automated dairy and real-farm testbed. It combines robotic milking, precision grazing, automation, sensor networks, and advanced tools like machine vision and 3D imaging to provide a commercial environment for testing sustainable, productive dairy solutions.

If you’re developing new agri‑tech and need a real‑farm environment to test, trial and demonstrate your innovation, the South West Dairy Development Centre is ready to support you. With Steanbow's award winning 200‑cow herd on site and a fully automated commercial system capturing data points from cow health and behaviour to emissions, grazing performance and environmental metrics. The Centre offers a uniquely rich setting for machine vision, sensor technologies, environmental monitoring, and livestock analytics.

Reach out today to explore how the Centre can support your business.