The National Ploughing Association (NPA) Innovation Arena is the perfect place to launch new innovations and again this year Irish Farmers Journal readers can vote for their favourite innovation in the People’s Choice category.
The NPA Innovation Arena puts inventions from Ireland on show to the world and helps establish their success by introducing them to the marketplace and facilitating networking that will help them take steps towards achieving commercial success.
This is the third year of the People’s Choice award and we are offering Irish Farmers Journal readers the chance to vote for their favourite innovation.
You can vote for your favourite innovation here: www.farmersjournal.ie/peoplesaward
Cormac Tagging Ltd
This innovation was born from customers’ problems. All calves born in Ireland must have a tissue sample taken for BVD testing.
Cormac's tissue sample wristband is worn on a farmer’s wrist while tagging. It is a simple non-evasive way of holding tubes while continuing to tag.
The size of the tubes have proven problematic for farmers. The tubes often dropped in bedding, placed in overall pockets, left on walls or lost before reaching the lab.
The band can also be used to store samples until ready for posting. This innovation is a simple solution to an international challenge.
Dairy Geyser Ltd
Dairy Geyser Instant Oil Water Heater - the ultimate answer to your dairy hot water requirements.
It uses:
On-demand water heating.Automtic bulk tank cleaning and sterlisation.Milking machine cleaning and sterlisation.Feeding calves with milk replacer at desired temperature.Power washing at high temperatures.Benefits include:
Up to 30L water per min.Instand from ambient to 80°C.Used in conjunction with pressure washer from ambient to 150°C. Ideal for control of clostridium and Johne's disease.Essential to use high temperature water with chlorine-free detergents to control TBCs and Thermodurics.Easy installation and service.Mobile or stationary units.DeadDock
This company has developed 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%.
This machine offers a dock control service to dairy farmers.
The company supplies the herbicide, the innovative herbicide application machine and the trained operator to control the weeds on the farm, and takes care of all the paperwork.
DIT Hothouse
Extractics is a platform separation technology that mines the gold in raw materials, co- and waste streams, used for the isolation and development of proteins from underutilised sources:
Agricultural co-streams.Waste streams (eg slurry/seafood).Natural raw materials (eg fruit and veg).By 2050, the world's population is estimated to be 10 billion.
There is now a shift toward sustainable, healthy, climate-smart protein sources.
DIT is leading the way in identifying and capturing these functional/bioactive proteins with technologies at DIT School of Biological Sciences.
e-Seed Trinity College Dublin
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.
The inoculant is relatively cheap to produce and apply and does not contaminate the end product.
The seed treatment works by enriching the natural beneficial microbiome within the growing crop plants, which improves the nutrient use efficiency of the crop, enabling greater utilisation of available soil and chemical nutrients.
Farmeye
Farmeye will launch Online Soil Nutrient Management Planning System (The NMP Portal).
The Farmeye NMP Portal is an online tool for agri-consultants, dairy processors and other agri-food businesses to monitor and manage soil fertility on their client/suppliers farms.
This easy-to-use map-based system can be used to demonstrate how, for example, the dairy co-op's suppliers are faring in terms of soil and nutrient sustainability.
In addition, given the impending CAP reform, mandatory NMPs will be required for all farms and this DAFM-approved system provides the means to digitally demonstrate compliance at farm level.
FreshGraze
Grazebot introduces Freshgrazing, an automated moving fence system 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 and graze on fresh pasture.
Freshgrazing provides flexibility and eases grassland management, leaving decisions easy to implement, improving grass production and utilisation, while leaving a digital footprint for farm to fork traceability, effective utilisation of mixed species swards promise to promote sustainable agriculture production.
Go2Mill Ltd
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
The ATV LifeGuard® is unique in being 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.
This means it can hold the back of the quad up off the ground sufficiently to help prevent the rider from being crushed underneath.
It has taken quad safety to a whole new level and has already proved itself. Designed and made in NZ, it has been saving lives around the world.
HerdInsights
HerdInsights has reached new heights by developing HerdInflight, a revolutionary drone-compatible estrus and health monitoring gateway.
In response to existing customers' needs, HerdInsights has developed this solution so cows on large pasture-based farms can be monitored more effectively and efficiently.
Whether you have 5,000 cattle on the plains of Argentina, 500 heifers off-farm in Texas or 300 dry cows in Australia, HerdInsights has the capability of monitoring these animals health and estrus status without any restrictions on range or accessibility.
The National Ploughing Association (NPA) Innovation Arena is the perfect place to launch new innovations and again this year Irish Farmers Journal readers can vote for their favourite innovation in the People’s Choice category.
The NPA Innovation Arena puts inventions from Ireland on show to the world and helps establish their success by introducing them to the marketplace and facilitating networking that will help them take steps towards achieving commercial success.
This is the third year of the People’s Choice award and we are offering Irish Farmers Journal readers the chance to vote for their favourite innovation.
You can vote for your favourite innovation here: www.farmersjournal.ie/peoplesaward
Cormac Tagging Ltd
This innovation was born from customers’ problems. All calves born in Ireland must have a tissue sample taken for BVD testing.
Cormac's tissue sample wristband is worn on a farmer’s wrist while tagging. It is a simple non-evasive way of holding tubes while continuing to tag.
The size of the tubes have proven problematic for farmers. The tubes often dropped in bedding, placed in overall pockets, left on walls or lost before reaching the lab.
The band can also be used to store samples until ready for posting. This innovation is a simple solution to an international challenge.
Dairy Geyser Ltd
Dairy Geyser Instant Oil Water Heater - the ultimate answer to your dairy hot water requirements.
It uses:
On-demand water heating.Automtic bulk tank cleaning and sterlisation.Milking machine cleaning and sterlisation.Feeding calves with milk replacer at desired temperature.Power washing at high temperatures.Benefits include:
Up to 30L water per min.Instand from ambient to 80°C.Used in conjunction with pressure washer from ambient to 150°C. Ideal for control of clostridium and Johne's disease.Essential to use high temperature water with chlorine-free detergents to control TBCs and Thermodurics.Easy installation and service.Mobile or stationary units.DeadDock
This company has developed 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%.
This machine offers a dock control service to dairy farmers.
The company supplies the herbicide, the innovative herbicide application machine and the trained operator to control the weeds on the farm, and takes care of all the paperwork.
DIT Hothouse
Extractics is a platform separation technology that mines the gold in raw materials, co- and waste streams, used for the isolation and development of proteins from underutilised sources:
Agricultural co-streams.Waste streams (eg slurry/seafood).Natural raw materials (eg fruit and veg).By 2050, the world's population is estimated to be 10 billion.
There is now a shift toward sustainable, healthy, climate-smart protein sources.
DIT is leading the way in identifying and capturing these functional/bioactive proteins with technologies at DIT School of Biological Sciences.
e-Seed Trinity College Dublin
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.
The inoculant is relatively cheap to produce and apply and does not contaminate the end product.
The seed treatment works by enriching the natural beneficial microbiome within the growing crop plants, which improves the nutrient use efficiency of the crop, enabling greater utilisation of available soil and chemical nutrients.
Farmeye
Farmeye will launch Online Soil Nutrient Management Planning System (The NMP Portal).
The Farmeye NMP Portal is an online tool for agri-consultants, dairy processors and other agri-food businesses to monitor and manage soil fertility on their client/suppliers farms.
This easy-to-use map-based system can be used to demonstrate how, for example, the dairy co-op's suppliers are faring in terms of soil and nutrient sustainability.
In addition, given the impending CAP reform, mandatory NMPs will be required for all farms and this DAFM-approved system provides the means to digitally demonstrate compliance at farm level.
FreshGraze
Grazebot introduces Freshgrazing, an automated moving fence system 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 and graze on fresh pasture.
Freshgrazing provides flexibility and eases grassland management, leaving decisions easy to implement, improving grass production and utilisation, while leaving a digital footprint for farm to fork traceability, effective utilisation of mixed species swards promise to promote sustainable agriculture production.
Go2Mill Ltd
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
The ATV LifeGuard® is unique in being 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.
This means it can hold the back of the quad up off the ground sufficiently to help prevent the rider from being crushed underneath.
It has taken quad safety to a whole new level and has already proved itself. Designed and made in NZ, it has been saving lives around the world.
HerdInsights
HerdInsights has reached new heights by developing HerdInflight, a revolutionary drone-compatible estrus and health monitoring gateway.
In response to existing customers' needs, HerdInsights has developed this solution so cows on large pasture-based farms can be monitored more effectively and efficiently.
Whether you have 5,000 cattle on the plains of Argentina, 500 heifers off-farm in Texas or 300 dry cows in Australia, HerdInsights has the capability of monitoring these animals health and estrus status without any restrictions on range or accessibility.
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