Tatton Consulting supported South Cambridgeshire-based livestock epigenomics company Antler Bio in its successful application to Farming Innovation Programme Small R&D Partnership Projects Rnd 3, awarded £718,502 by Innovate UK for the project AEH: An AI-driven Herd Screening platform harnessing gene expression in livestock to provide UK farmers with actionable insights for improving herd productivity.. The total Innovate UK grant across all project partners was £1,166,942.
About the funded R&D project
Antler Bio’s platform reads gene expression in livestock to tell farmers what is actually happening in their herds, rather than inferring it from breed or yield records alone. This project builds an AI-driven herd screening service on that foundation, converting epigenomic signals into decisions a farmer can act on. The commercial question is whether the insight changes herd productivity by enough to justify the screening cost, which is what the project sets out to establish.
Award details
- Grant to Antler Bio: £718,502
- Total project grant (all partners): £1,166,942
- Competition: Farming Innovation Programme Small R&D Partnership Projects Rnd 3
- Competition year: 2023/24
- Project: AEH: An AI-driven Herd Screening platform harnessing gene expression in livestock to provide UK farmers with actionable insights for improving herd productivity.
- Sector: Agritech / livestock genomics
- Independent verification: Innovate UK funded projects transparency dataset (UKRI), published 10 August 2026
Tatton Consulting supported the competitive grant application. The award value, competition and project title are taken from Innovate UK’s published record of funded projects.
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