# ARA at East Anglia: deployment

Canonical ID: `26a90076-f885-4c1d-9c9f-1dd3d28bc789`

Vegetable Consultancy Services (VCS), an agronomy and contracting outfit across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Kent, ran roughly 1,000 hectares of ARA contracting and demonstration work in 2024, reporting chemical savings up to 96 percent and facilitating about 24 UK ARA sales. The de-facto UK rollout channel for ARA.

## Key facts

- **Operator:** Vegetable Consultancy Services (VCS)
- **Scope:** ~1,000 ha contracting; ~24 UK sales

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-07-09_

- **Slug:** ecorobotix-ara-vcs-east-anglia
- **Status:** operational
- **Model:** [ARA](/models/ecorobotix-ara.md) (id: `30f8765e-f10a-48ff-b210-035eb96553ef`)
- **Company:** [Ecorobotix](/companies/ecorobotix.md) (id: `7197ce25-2da2-4d41-a33a-9bfbd464977a`)
- **Location:** [East Anglia](/locations/east-anglia-uk.md) (id: `e4f9be56-e606-436b-a47d-91f28f98ca31`)
- **First seen:** 2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. **Ecorobotix spot sprayer slashes chemical costs by over 90%** · https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/technology/ecorobotix-spot-sprayer-slashes-chemical-costs-by-over-90 · 2024-07-22

## Common questions

### What is the ARA deployment at East Anglia?

ARA, built by Ecorobotix, is recorded as a deployment at East Anglia on the DEPLOY registry. Ecorobotix operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates ARA at East Anglia?

Ecorobotix, the manufacturer of ARA, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### When did the ARA deployment at East Anglia go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2024 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Have there been incidents at the ARA deployment at East Anglia?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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