The UK Agri-Tech Centre’s Global Growth Accelerator will introduce a select group of UK dairy and livestock innovators to New Zealand, where their technologies will be piloted directly on local farms through FIN’s nationwide network of progressive farmers.
Delivered by the UK Agri-Tech Centre, and in collaboration with Agnition Ventures and AgriTech New Zealand, the programme creates a new international pathway for promising agritech solutions to be validated in one of the world’s most advanced pasture-based farming environments.
For New Zealand farmers, the programme provides early access to emerging technologies not yet available locally, with supported pilot trials allowing farmers to test innovations with minimal risk while helping shape products through realworld feedback. These technologies have already proven themselves on UK farms, delivering both technical performance and real on-farm value. Now UK companies are bringing them to NZ to pilot in local conditions, work directly with farmers, and refine them for our farming systems before broader rollout.
It also leverages the counter-seasonality between the UK and New Zealand, enabling innovators to continue testing technologies year-round and accelerating development cycles that would otherwise stall during the northern hemisphere off-season.
Jasper van Halder, chief executive of Agnition Ventures and chief innovation officer at Ravensdown, said the programme highlights the important role New Zealand farmers play in shaping the next generation of agricultural technology.
