McArthur BDC
Project lead. McArthur BDC is an agricultural processing engineering business specialising in pulse and grain handling, drying and processing. McArthur BDC coordinates the InFaba project and leads three work packages: lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, knowledge exchange and project management. The business also processes the faba bean material used in the feeding trials, including dehulling to produce the tannin-rich co-product and thermal treatment to produce the soya replacement ingredient. McArthur BDC currently leads a seven-partner work package within the £5.9m Defra-funded Nitrogen Climate Smart project and regularly delivers complex commercial engineering and R&D projects across the UK agriculture sector. The business is based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
SRUC
Scotland's Rural College leads the in vitro and in vivo science within InFaba. SRUC's animal nutrition research group runs the laboratory fermentation studies, controlled dairy cow trials and direct methane measurement using GreenFeed systems at the Barony research dairy. The team brings together expertise in ruminant nutrition, rumen microbiology and methane mitigation, combined with the controlled experimental facilities required to generate validated performance data on milk yield, methane emissions and nitrogen efficiency. SRUC's experimental work provides the evidence base that underpins the on-farm trials at Muller and feeds into the lifecycle assessment. SRUC also contributes academic outputs that share findings with the wider technical and research community.
Farm Carbon Toolkit
Farm Carbon Toolkit leads the carbon accounting and valuation work. The Toolkit develops and maintains the Farm Carbon Calculator, used widely across UK agriculture for greenhouse gas emissions reporting and farm-level decision support. Within InFaba, FCT integrates the new feed ingredients and their emission factors into the calculator architecture, ensuring farmers and advisers can quantify and report the emissions reductions associated with their use. FCT also leads the development of supply chain business models that allow these reductions to be recognised and rewarded through milk pricing or insetting mechanisms. The aim is a practical, scalable approach that turns verified emissions reductions into commercial value at farm level.
PGRO
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation leads variety selection and tannin profiling. PGRO operates the UK Field Bean Descriptive List trial network, the national reference for pulse variety performance, and provides expertise on pulse agronomy, crop nutrition and breeding. Within InFaba, PGRO designs and runs the small plot trials that profile tannin and protein content across UK faba bean varieties, and the agronomy trials that test how sulphur and amino acid nutrient treatments affect grain quality. PGRO also supports the field-scale variety trials delivered by W & JC Harrison. The organisation is the lead partner for the Defra-funded Nitrogen Climate Smart project and brings deep relationships across the UK arable sector.
Muller UK & Ireland
Muller leads the commercial on-farm trials and provides the route into commercial dairy supply chains. Muller works with around 1,300 UK dairy farmers, including 260 farms within the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group, and processes a significant share of UK milk. Within InFaba, Muller recruits the five commercial dairy farms that host the on-farm trials, coordinates the introduction of the feed ingredients into existing rations and manages farmer engagement throughout. Muller also supports wider dissemination across the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group and the broader supplier base through newsletters, farmer meetings and direct outreach, providing the practical evidence base for retailer-aligned, supply chain-wide adoption of the new feed ingredients.
Steering Group
Our steering group brings together five senior figures from across the UK dairy and arable supply chain and the policy community. The group meets regularly to provide independent insight and constructive challenge to the project team, testing the technical work against commercial reality and policy direction.
Members are drawn from retail, milk processing, feed and ingredient supply, farming and the policy environment shaping UK agriculture's transition to net zero. Their role is to keep InFaba grounded in the practical conditions under which the new feed ingredients will be adopted, to surface risks and opportunities early, and to ensure the work supports credible, measurable progress against retailer Scope 3 commitments and the wider policy framework for low-emission farming.