Ranjit Boparan stares intently at the screen. To the naked eye he’s looking at CCTV images of small chickens in a big barn. But look closer and there are little circles focused on each of the chicks.  Numbers pop up as the chicks move about. Using AI, the screen gives the stock keeper greater visibility over each bird’s weight, movement and behaviour, as well as conditions inside and outside the shed.

And for the 2 Sisters owner and so-called ‘Chicken King’ the changes such technology is affording are transformational.

“Data, data, data. What can we get from data? That’s what I’m always asking. That’s what the last 10 years has been about and what the next 10 will be about. How can we use technology, digitisation and robotics to stretch boundaries and create a supply chain that doesn’t exist today and makes us fit for the future?”