The team at Connacht Agri Supplies Ltd from Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, has a number of new items on stand no 247, row 18 at this year’s National Ploughing Championships. Seamus Hession of Connacht Agri said it will unveil 10 new products. There will be a 7t capacity free-standing solar feeder which has automatic timing and is fully galvanised. This new model comes with 15m (50ft) of trough space.

The second new product is a multi-feature cattle crush gate. This includes a patented head capture attachment for any crush gate that claims to completely immobilise the animal’s head.

Connacht Agri will also show a wireless machinery camera that displays to your mobile phone instead of a monitor. It will have a neck extender type quick catch easy release fully adjustable front crush gate and a new all aluminium sheep weigh enclosure.

The company will also introduce a new electronic rise and fall ATV aluminium yard scraper kit as well as a remote controlled fully offset pressed galvanised weed-licker. Among the other new items will be a 24 volt cubicle bedding machine that can handle sawdust or lime and a Honda engine powered leaf blower and vacuum machine.

New Zero Grazer

Niall O’Reilly, one of the pioneers of the zero grazing concept in Ireland with his company Zero Grazer, is entering his 10th season in business. Over that period, he has added 14 machines to the range. This year, Niall will be showing the new ZG100 Zero Grazer with the disc cutting bed, the ZG80. Both machines use an 2.4m wide cutting bed, and are said to be the only zero grazing machines in the world using this system. They are all manufactured by Hand Engineering in Dromone, Olcastle, Co. Meath. Also on show will be a new and patented AB50 eight-wheeled zero grazing design, a machine designed for extreme cutting conditions.

Diesel storage monitor

Kingspan Titan will lauch its latest secure fuel storage and dispensing model, the FuelMaster+, Stand 674, Row 30. This new range of tanks come supplied as standard with the Watchman Anywhere, a remote oil level monitoring device that not only measures fuel levels but also claims to allow access to this information on the move, offering users the peace of mind that they need never run out of stored fuel again.