An innovative platform using ML/AI to analyse farm data and deliver insights to improve farm performance, increasing farm profitability by 5-10%

Flocktail是一家总部位于英国的农业技术中小企业，其核心项目团队由James斯特雷顿（项目负责人）和托马斯尼尔德（技术负责人）组成。农民在满足监管要求的同时，面临着饲养可盈利、可持续牲畜的挑战。选择性育种可以帮助提高羔羊生长，母羊生产力和改善血统的整体利润。然而，分析血统是复杂的，需要评估多种性状。现有的软件无法进行这种分析，因此很难识别高性能的血统。如果没有这些工具，农民就无法利用选择性育种的好处。为了解决这一未满足的需求，Flocktail正在开发一个平台，该平台使用ML/AI技术来分析农场数据并提供见解，以帮助提高农场绩效。该平台将使农民能够围绕育种选择做出更好的、以数据为主导的决策，以提高羊群性能和农场盈利能力5- 10%，并对盈利能力产生永久和累积的影响。该平台还可以实现遗传改良，为整个13亿英镑的绵羊养殖业带来经济效益。通过鼓励农场合规性的数字记录保存，Flocktail可以帮助农民进一步增加3.5%的收入。此外，Flocktail的创新将支持显著的成本节约和改善动物福利。

FlockFinder is a UK-based agri-tech SME with a core project team of James Stretton (Project Lead) and Thomas Neeld (Technical Lead).Farmers face challenges in rearing profitable, sustainable livestock while meeting regulatory requirements. Selective breeding can help increase lamb growth, ewe productivity and overall profit by improving bloodlines. However, analysing bloodlines is complex and requires evaluating multiple traits. Existing software cannot perform this analysis, making it difficult to identify high-performing bloodlines. Without these tools, farmers cannot exploit the benefits of selective breeding.To address this unmet need, FlockFinder is developing a platform that uses ML/AI technologies to analyse farm data and deliver insights to help improve farm performance. FlockFinder's platform will enable farmers to make better, data-led decisions around breeding selection to improve flock performance and farm profitability by 5-10%, with a permanent and cumulative effect on profitability. The platform could also enable genetic improvements that deliver economic benefits across the £1.3bn sheep farming industry.By encouraging digital record-keeping for farm compliance, FlockFinder could help further increase farmer income by 3.5%. Also, FlockFinder's innovation will support significant cost savings and improved animal welfare.