{"id":680576,"date":"2026-07-08T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:10:14","slug":"warwick-ai-experts-claim-brexit-shortages-are-driving-farming-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680576\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick AI experts claim Brexit shortages are driving farming innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim is not to replace everyone working on a farm, but to maximise productivity, and also offer workers the chance to improve their skills and value to the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely becoming harder and harder to get the labour,&#8221; said Ben Ayre, lead engineer for the university&#8217;s intelligent vehicles project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having these robotics enables us to get the most out of all of the the staff that we do have to be able to be as productive as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alicia Feledziak, from Warwick Agr-Tech, was also keen to stress the opportunities for farm workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There might be some roles where instead of doing some of the more laborious tasks you might start to look at having workers be up-skilled to things like fleet management,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aim is not to replace everyone working on a farm, but to maximise productivity, and also offer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}