Make sure to vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice Awards online or on the ploughing App.

Acidose 1

Warren Stevely

E-Mail: warrenstevely@gmail.com

Location: Scotstown, Co Monaghan

Website: N/A

Telephone: 086 2029776

The Acidose 1 is an innovative device that regulates water pH for a poultry house. It’s been designed in accordance with a new acidic dosing method to reduce the need for antibiotics in poultry farming while increasing farming efficiency which will benefit both the poultry farmer and the processing company.

Agrify Solutions Ltd

Ger O’Keeffe

E-Mail: ger@agrify.ie

Location: Quin, Co Cork

Website: www.agrify.ie

Telephone: 087 9960456

Agrify’s Tailpainter improves heat detection by allowing the application of tailpaint in just a few seconds per cow eliminating the need for wasteful bottles or messy brush applicators. The Tailpainter allows you to safely tailpaint while milking, eliminating the need for a labour-intensive crush.

Agrispread International

David Murphy

E-Mail: davidmurphy@agrispread.com

Location: Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo

Website: www.agrispread.com

Telephone: 086 3526132

The company has developed a fertiliser application system which accurately controls the even distribution and precise application rates of fertiliser. Fertiliser can be uniformly applied which results in reduced input costs, increase in yields, minimising crop damage and environmental impact.

AgroCycle Marketplace

Dr Tom Curran

E-Mail: agrocycle@ucd.ie

Location: University College Dublin, Dublin

Website: www.agrocycle.eu

Telephone: 01 7167362

AgroCycle is a UCD-led EU-China research programme focusing on recycling and reuse of agri-food waste, including using these wastes to replace plastic with bio-degradable material. It will display biocomposite cups made from potato pulp and biocomposite drinking straws made from rice husks.

Alchemy Utilities

Éanna Tiernan

E-Mail: eanna.tiernan@alchemyutilities.ie

Location: Elphin, Co Roscommon

Website: www.alchemyutilities.ie

Telephone: 086 80878826

The Alchemy Thermophilic Digester (TD) is a biogas system that uses a next generation dry digestion process, improving the energy efficiency typically associated with traditional Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems. It is able to run on a wide range of organic feedstocks including 100% chicken litter.

Anuland

David McDonnell

E-Mail: info@anuland.com

Location: Shanagolden, Co Limerick

Website: www.anuland.com

Telephone: 069 60404

Anuland is developing a new farm management package that delivers data from soil in near real time. It measures the soil attributes, combining them with other data to return key in-field knowledge to the farmer. It focuses on soil and crop health and fertility.

Applied Concepts

Kevin Kennedy

E-Mail: kevin@appliedpi.com

Location: Birr, Co Offaly

Website: www.appliedpi.com

Telephone: 089 2378670

Applied Concepts is launching a brand new PTO powered screw air compressor which can be mounted and powered by either the front or rear PTO shaft. With its patent pending vario air-end technology, this compressor is the first in the world that can be mounted on either PTO.

Blue Bull Machinery - The Easy Arm Auto

Darragh Egan

E-Mail: ballyealanengineering@gmail.com

Location: Tullamore, Co Offaly

Website: www.bluebullmachinery.ie

Telephone: 087 2681620

Blue Bull Machinery has invented a ring feeder lifter which lifts a ring feeder up and lowers it over a bale helping to prevent back injury and livestock attack. The Easy Arm Auto will cut and retain the plastic eliminating the need for the farmer to get out of the cab of the tractor.

C&F Green Energy

Sean Ganley

E-Mail: sean.ganley@cfgreenenergy.com

Location: Athenry, Co Galway

Website: www.cfgreenenergy.com

Telephone: 091 787221

C&F Green Energy has developed a permanent magnet, direct drive wind turbine which gives it the highest output and most efficient machines in their class. C&F Green Energy is the global leader in small and medium-sized wind turbines.

Clare Engineering (Cavan) Slurry Gas Buster

Vincent Brady

E-Mail: clareengineering@eircom.net

Location: Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan

Website: www.clareengineering.com

Telephone: 087 2422924

The company has developed an extraction system that will disperse the potentially fatal gases in farm manure which are generated when a farmer is mixing/agitating slurry. Its extraction system will disperse the air in the slatted shed and replace with clean safe air reducing the risk of accidental death.

Cormac Tagging Ltd

Ursula Kelly

E-Mail: ursula@cormactagging.ie

Location: Tuam, Co Galway

Website: www.cormactagging.ie

Telephone: 093 52385

All calves born in Ireland must have a tissue sample taken for BVD testing. The company has developed a tissue sample wristband which is worn on a farmer’s wrist while tagging.

Dairy Geyser Ltd

Syl Lyster

E-Mail: syllyster@gmail.com

Location: Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny

Website: www.dairygeyser.ie

Telephone: 087 2362397

The company has developed an instant oil water heater which provides on demand water heating which can heat up to 30L water per min instantly from ambient to 80°C. It is ideal for control of Clostridium and Johne’s disease.

DeadDock

Padraic Walsh

E-Mail: padraicwalsh@hotmail.com

Location: Ballina, Co Mayo

Website: www.deaddock.com

Telephone: 087 6629607

The company has developed a computer-vision technology that discriminates between broadleaf weeds from grass. It uses this technology to apply herbicides to the weeds individually and not the grass. In trials DeadDock has saved herbicide usage by over 90%.

DIT Hothouse - Extractics

Kieran O’Connell

E-Mail: kieran.oconnell@dit.ie

Location: Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin

Website: www.dit.ie/hothouse

Telephone: 01 879268657

Extractics is a separation technology that mines useful products in raw materials and by prodcuts or waste. It identifies and captures functional/bioactive proteins with its technologies.

e-Seed Trinity College Dublin

Brian Murphy

E-Mail: murphb16@tcd.ie

Location: Trinity College Dublin, Dublin

Website: www.tcd.ieotany

Telephone: 086 3920517

e-Seed TCD offers products that use microorganisms as crop seed inoculants. The e-Seed products will enable farmers to reduce synthetic chemical inputs while still maintaining full yield. The product is applied as a thin-film seed dressing to the crop using standard seed dressing equipment prior to distribution to growers.

Farmeye

Eoghan Finneran

E-Mail: eoghan.finneran@farmeye.ie

Location: Galway, Co Galway

Website: www.farmeye.ie

Telephone: 086 3947926

Farmeye will launch an online tool for agri-consultants, dairy processors and other agri-food businesses to monitor and manage soil fertility on their client/suppliers farms. The map based system can be used to demonstrate how a farm is faring in terms of soil and nutrient sustainability.

FreshGraze

Tomas Drumm

E-Mail: info@freshgraze.ie

Location: Collinstown, Co Westmeath

Website:

Telephone: 087 7661568

Grazebot is introducing an automated moving fence system called Freshgraze which allocates fresh grass to grazing animals on a continual basis at a rate that ensures the entire sward is consumed before the fence moves again. The cows don’t walk or contaminate the grass they are about to eat.

Go2Mill Ltd

Chantal Stewart

E-Mail: info@go2mill.com

Location: Blessington, Co Wicklow

Website: www.go2mill.com

Telephone: 087 7119672

The Go2Mill is a portable attachment for a chainsaw. It enables the user to make valuable planks and beams on location without the need to transport the tree to a traditional timber mill.

Grasstec Group

Bertie Troy

E-Mail: btroy@grasstecgroup.com

Location: Mallow, Co Cork

Website: www.grasstecgroup.com

Telephone: 022 27610

The ATV LifeGuard® is the only roll bar made that is flexible and has the ability to deform or deflect in shape if it comes in contact with a person’s body or limbs yet it is not able to collapse altogether. Designed and made in New Zealand, it has been saving lives around the world.

HerdInsights

Brian Mulcahy

E-Mail: accounts@herdinsights.com

Location: Little Island, Co Cork

Website: www.herdinsights.com

Telephone: 021 2428799

HerdInflight is a drone compatible, estrus and health monitoring device. This has been developed so cows on large pasture-based farms can be monitored more effectively and efficiently. It has no restrictions on range or accessibility.

Herdwatch Platform as a Service

James Greevy

E-Mail: james@herdwatch.ie

Location: Roscrea, Co Tipperary

Website: www.herdwatch.ie

Telephone: 086 7784030

The Herdwatch Platform as a service is a fully customisable and flexible out of the box technology platform that can be licensed on a subscription by any organisation in the Agri-Food industry to provide a unique solution to their supplier, customer or partner farms.

INDECOCCI

Dr. Joanna Tierney

E-Mail: Joanna.Tierney@staff.ittralee.ie

Location: Tralee, Kerry

Website: www.shannonabc.ie Telephone: 066 7145657

INDECOCCI is a poultry gut immunobiotic that is marine derived and demonstrates anti-parasitic activity for coccidiosis control in broiler production.

Inspect 4 T/A HoofCare Direct

Maeve O’Keeffe

E-Mail: inspect4hooftrimming@gmail.com

Location: Ballynoe, Co Cork

Website: www.hoofcaredirect.ie

Telephone: 087 9539581

The Inspect4 Rollover Crate improves safety for both the operator and the animal and takes the heavy lifting out of hoof trimming.

Lir Agri

Micheal Savage

E-Mail: micheal.savage@liranalytical.com

Location: Longford, Co Longford

Website: www.liragri.com

Telephone: 043 3349911

Lir Agri developed a scientifically engineered cleaning and hygiene solution for the pig farming industry. The products are used by food producers and food processors in helping eradicate harmful bacterial currently effecting livestock and food production.

Little Red Design Studio

Anna Carmody

E-Mail: annacarmody@littlereddesignstudio.com

Location: Dublin

Website: www.littlereddesignstudio.com

Telephone: 083 0482770

Little Red Design Studio specialises in early learning products. Hazard Farm is a children’s book and play-mat combined to educate early learners about the dangers on a farm through the use of rhyme, sounds and main characters Billy and Lily who teach them how to be safe.

Lump Buster

Bernie McNamee

E-Mail: lumpbuster@gmail.com

Location: Moyne, Co Longford

Website: www.lumpbuster.ie Telephone: 086 0886976

The Lump Buster is an Irish designed and manufactured device used to rapidly and effectively break up solid blockages in slurry tanks.

Machine Eye

Brendan Digney

E-Mail: brendan@machine-eye.com

Location: Newry, Co Down

Website: www.machine-eye.com Telephone: 075 88197395

Machine Eye develops intelligent, pre-emptive safety systems for situational awareness around farm machinery and heavy plant. Machine Eye provides protection against accidents involving machinery for operators, bystanders and everybody on the farm.

Malone Procut 3000

Fearghail Connolly

E-Mail: Sales@malone.com

Location: Claremorris, Co Mayo

Website: www.malonefm.com

Telephone: 087 0611333

Malone procut trailed mower has a comer bed with sheer hub protection semi swing steel conditioner tynes. This mower is built for both contractors and farmers that want that clean cut.

MicroFarm

Donal Healion

E-Mail: healiond@staff.ncad.ie

Location: Dublin

Website: www.ncad.ie

Telephone: 01 6364364

MicroFarm is a fully automatic device for the indoor home growing of microgreens and herbs. It allows the user to grow their own fresh produce aeroponically and automatically, so there is no mess and no effort required.

Monte Loader

Patrick Masterson

E-Mail: paddym.121@gmail.com

Location: Mountcharles, Co Donegal

Website:

Telephone: 087 6216777

The Monte Loader is a concept which was designed to cut down on costs and improve the efficiency on working farms. It is a fully registered design and is universal to any tractor via the 3-point linkage. It will take any implement using euro brackets. It can lift to a height of over 3 meters and is designed to safely lift 1 tonne weight.

O’Donovan Engineering Safety Brake

Damien O’Donovan

E-Mail: info@odonovaneng.ie

Location: Clonakilty, Co Cork

Website: www.odonovaneng.ie

Telephone: 021 7334066

The Safety Brake is designed to increase safety on the farm by reducing the kickback when an animal comes in contact with the gate. The sudden swing of the gate could lead to injuries to both the farmer and others around the calving pen.

Origin Chain

Fiona Delaney

E-Mail: fgdelaney@gmail.com

Location: Dublin

Website: www.originchain.eu

Telephone: 087 6199609

Origin Chain offers blockchain-enabled software solutions to the dual problems of real world asset authentication /proof-of-origin traceability and securing 1st-look insights into consumer needs in export markets. It is at the design phase of its software platform.

Prolego Scientific

Andrew Parnell

E-Mail: andrew@prolegoscientific.com

Location: University College Dublin, Dublin

Website: www.prolegoscientific.com

Telephone: 086 7924780

Prolego Scientific have developed two proprietary algorithms for predicting performance and breeding values in thoroughbred animals and crops. Currently the algorithms are used to predict outcomes such as optimal racing conditions for elite thoroughbred race horses and their susceptibility to heritable diseases. It is currently expanding into new areas such as poultry and aquaculture.

Pro-Revive

Gerard Daly

E-Mail: gerarddaly13@hotmail.com

Location: Ballinasloe, Co Galway

Website:

Telephone: 087 4157989

The Pro-Revive Resuscitation Unit is developed to aid with the resuscitation of a new born animal that is born with a heartbeat but is not breathing.

Remote Signals Ltd

Joe Perrott

E-Mail: joe@remotesignals.ie

Location: Limerick, Co Limerick

Website: www.remotesignals.ie

Telephone: 087 0542854

Remote Signals designs and builds sensor systems that combine wireless sensors with cloud-based analytics. Remote Signals believe by making sensors simple to deploy and the data easy to consume, customers will be able to deploy them in places where they have never been used before.

S.C.A.L.P

Brendan Cantwell

E-Mail: scalp6424@gmail.com

Location: Tullamore, Co Offaly

Website: www.scalp6424@gmail.com

Telephone: 087 7791564

This innovation is an implement that combs top of the ground field stones into rows. These rows of stone in turn can be loaded into trailers by harvesters or front end loaders with beet baskets or something similar.

Supercrop1

David Doran

E-Mail: david@acresmachinery.com

Location: Roscommon, Co Roscommon

Website: www.supercrop1.com

Telephone: 087 2482065

Supercrop1 is a forage machine/system designed to reduce the amount of equipment required while saving crops such as hay, silage and straw. The unique modular design of Supercrop1 allows the user to configure the machine to suit their precise needs.

Terra NutriTECH

Padraig Hennessy

E-Mail: padraig@tlm.ie

Location: Athy, Co Kildare

Website: www.TerraNutriTECH.com

Telephone: 087 2165374

Terra NutriTech is an intelligent mineral dosing system designed to help farms become more profitable through better animal health and innovative technology. Terra NutriTech offers a plug and play system to farmers that increases herd health, saves time and money, accurately dispenses minerals and reduces supplementary feed costs

The Calf Floor Company

Con O Laoghaire

E-Mail: conolaoghaire@yahoo.com

Location: Waterford, Co Waterford

Website: www.nowebsiteyet.com

Telephone: 086 1731969

The Calf Floor is a non-porous, water tight and power washable floor with a non slip surface. Waste falls under the floor from its curved cushioned surface.

TOXOR: Water Quality/Toxicity Testing

Dr. Baljit SINGH

E-Mail: Baljit.Singh@ittdublin.ie

Location: IT Tallaght, Dublin

Website: http://micra.ie/

Telephone: 01 4042033

TOXOR is a platform sensor technology aimed at the water quality monitoring (microbiological and chemical), fecal contamination detection and indicative toxicity testing market as a low cost and rapid sensor for agri-food businesses and farming applications.

True North Technology

Paddy Halton

E-Mail: paddy.halton@truenorthtechnologies.ie

Location: Shannon, Co Clare

Website: www.moregrass.ie Telephone: 085 8628234

This company is developing smart sensors that allow farmers to measure and manage their resources.

Vahey Field Mouse

Kevin Vahey

E-Mail: Kevin.12840@gmail.com

Location: Ballinrobe, Co Mayo

Website:

Telephone: 087 0942066

The company has developed a trailed grass conditioner that is equipped with a gyro gear box.

Willbo Dual Head Scoops

Willie Bolton

E-Mail: williepatbolton@gmail.com

Location: Portarlington, Co Laois

Website: williepatbolton@gmail.com

Telephone: 087 2609711

The company has developed a dual speed ratchet system with 1,134Kgs lifting power. There is a safety recoil built in if animal goes down. It makes routine tasks easier and safer for both farmer and livestock.