These are the big areas of social, environmental and economic benefit to which we contribute:
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Because of our work:
We apply and support the development of AI and sensing technologies, including remote sensing, to assess and understand the spatial and temporal variability of soils, crops, and animals. We study how such data can improve decision-making. We develop robotic solutions to complement human activities.
We provide microbial biotechnology and consulting to industry and agriculture, including microbiome analyses and biocontrol solutions to manage disease and enhance plant growth systems for farming, horticulture, and forestry.
We provide water-related research, focused on understanding and measuring groundwater systems. We also supply tools to regional and central government, and water users, to manage groundwater quality, nitrogen impacts, and water allocation, enabling a sustainable future for water resources.
We research engineering-based methane mitigation and CO2 removal techniques to combat global warming and help New Zealand meet its contribution to greenhouse gas reduction.
We develop new high-value materials from biological sources, including coarse wool and plant-derived cellulose. We partner with industry, including the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand, and focus on commercial applications of new materials.
We provide smart sensing technologies for the agricultural and industrial sectors that reduce costs, realise new revenue streams, and improve decision-making. Our capabilities include electromagnetics for making precision measurements and machine vision for extracting and visualising actionable data using machine learning.
Our staff are motivated by seeing the positive impact of their hard work in practice: supporting improved farming systems; delivering improved environmental outcomes; and creating new platform-level technologies applicable to solving important challenges faced by multiple industries. We have a track record in commercialising our technologies.
At Lincoln Agritech, our people are our greatest asset as we strive to deliver world-class research, science, and engineering solutions. Our team knows that it takes collaboration, passion and determination to create real-world impact through our mahi. The diversity of skill, thought and perspective in our people underpins our past and future successes.
2024 marks Lincoln Agritech’s 60th year. Founded in 1964 as the New Zealand Agricultural Engineering Institute (NZAEI), it originally undertook applied research to accelerate agricultural engineering innovation by New Zealand’s primary sector. In the past 60 years, our research focus has expanded to the impact areas of sustainable production, protecting water resources, enhancing natural materials, and action on climate change.
Our ambition is for thriving industries and communities in a healthy environment.
We do multi-disciplinary research and development, implementing sustainable solutions, in partnership with farmers, industry, Māori, government and other researchers.
Lincoln Agritech is a 100% subsidiary of Lincoln University.
For more than 140 years, Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University has focused on growing Aotearoa New Zealand’s land-based knowledge and productivity.
Lincoln University’s mission is to cultivate knowledge through excellent research and education and help shape a world that benefits from a greater understanding of the relationships between land, food and ecosystems.
Welcome to Lincoln University. A place to grow.
