Full ADOPT Grant: Round 5

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £4.5 million for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects as part of Defra's Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. The aim of this competition is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions and demonstrate that they will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities. Projects must have the potential to significantly improve productivity, resilience, sustainability and progression towards net zero farming. Proposals must demonstrate to other English farmers, growers or foresters how the idea or solution will be of benefit to them. Projects must focus on testing and trialling ideas or solutions that are either new or not yet widely used, and must outline how they will communicate and share the outputs from their trial or experiment during and after the project.