The Greater Lincolnshire Ag-Zone is securing the future of the £2.5 billion agricultural sector through innovation, technology, and skills development. It focuses on growing the agricultural sector, whilst supporting the growth of a UK leading agri-tech, robotics, AI, and sustainable farming cluster.

The agritech cluster is anchored by the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT), Barclays Eagle Lab, and farm demonstration sites. 

The Ag Zone supports the UK Food Valley initiative by driving productivity, automation, and sustainable smart farming. 

The Ag Zone focuses on collaborative research which has attracted over £2000m of investment to the area in the last 10 years, and supported the establishment of new commercialised agritech businesses. 

The Ag Zone, working collaboratively across multiple organisations, consolidates activity, promotes the cluster as a national centre of excellence, and attracts investment into the agricultural and agritech sector across Greater Lincolnshire. 

The partners in the Ag Zone work collaboratively to: 

  • Support agricultural technology development, commercialisation and deployment; 
  • Grow the UK Food Valley cluster of companies working on agricultural technology development; 
  • Create a skills pipeline from schools, through FE and HE, to postgraduate and CPD training; 
  • Bid for funding to grow investment in agritech skills, knowledge exchange, innovation and commercialisation; 
  • Create a technology cluster focused on agritech on the A15 north of Lincoln

Centred in West Lindsey, with a focus on the Riseholme campus and the Central Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone, key partners are the University of Lincoln (LIAT), Bishop Burton College, Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, and Lincolnshire County Council.