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POULTRY
MOY PARK AWARDED INNOVATE UK GRANT FOR
GROUND-BREAKING POULTRY HOUSE PROJECT
Leading food company Moy Park togeth-
er with its partners Queen’s University Bel-
fast and JF McKenna, has been successful
in attracting funding from Innovate UK to
develop its £250,000 ‘Ideal Home’ project.
The project will provide an improved,
resource, and energy-efficient solution
to poultry houses, as the farming indus-
try looks to meet the sustainability target
of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by
2040.
With a life span of over 30 years, a poul-
try house presents a significant investment “Our corporate responsibility agen- “The Ideal Home partnership, led by Moy
for farmers. The ‘Ideal Home’ project will da focuses our efforts on developing our Park, has developed a project that introduc-
focus on animal health and welfare while business in a sustainable and ethical way, es a detailed baseline assessment identify-
improving heating, ventilation, lighting, and investing and improving wherever we can ing the current situation within ‘traditional’
feeding systems through energy-efficient to meet present and future needs. housing. Net-zero emission agriculture,
and sustainable solutions. coupled with feeding the growing global
“Ideal Home is an exciting and innova-
Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agen- tive project with high reward potential, population, can only succeed if improved
cy, which provides funding and support to which drives transformational change to production and sustainability are fully in-
science and technology projects. boost sustainability and productivity across tegrated into the food production process.”
Speaking about the project, Moy Park’s the UK’s poultry production system. From The feasibility project spans 18 months,
Head of Research and Development, Dr. an industry perspective, work must start during which time the research consortium
Anne Richmond said: now to help achieve the net-zero emission will work closely with farmers and custom-
target by 2040, in a manner that assures ers regarding the proposed precision solu-
high animal welfare. tions.
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