Agri-Business
Hexafrass fertiliser to help plants render aphids infertile
Hexafrass, a new insect-based fertiliser, has been proven to enable an immune system response in plants that can render aphids...
AgTech
Agri-Business
Challenge to find sustainable AgTech start-ups launched
An international programme seeking start-ups with the potential to accelerate the agricultural industry’s transition to a net zero sector, was...
Sponsored
Watch: How Cavan farm partnership combats scour
Scour occurs when the gut becomes compromised and calves lose proper functioning of the intestine, resulting in diarrhoea and loss...
Agri-Business
AgTech Ireland: A 'thrashing machine' would have been AgTech once
The relevance of AgTech in meeting climate targets within agriculture has been highlighted by chairman of AgTech Ireland and CEO...
Agri-Business
Watch: Farmland - mastitis control and AgTech innovations
This week’s episode of Farmland discusses mastitis control measures and the growing Irish AgTech sector, which is helping farmers to...
Agri-Business
AgTech and Enterprise Ireland to run 'agri-tech' exports discussion group
AgTech Ireland and Enterprise Ireland will run a series of discussion groups on exporting for agricultural technology companies, the first...
Agri-Business
Agri-innovators urged to enter Innovation Arena competition
Enterprise Ireland’s Annual Innovation Arena Awards 2022 have today (Monday, April 11) officially been launched, as the competition physically returns...
Rural Life
Applications open to colleges for Macra technology award
Entries opened today (April 4), for students in Irish agricultural colleges to apply for the Macra na Feirme Farm Business...
Agri-Business
Irish start-up reaches final of global accelerator programme
Irish ag-tech company, Iamus Technologies, has been announced as a finalist in the THRIVE global accelerator programme, and is set...
Sponsored
Watch: Offaly farmer makes big savings by 'going solar'
Imagine standing on your farm, knowing you have taken steps to secure its future. The sun is shining, not just...
Agri-Business
Autonomous robot start-up among UCD AgTech winners
Three companies – Cotter Agritech, ProvEye and Izario – have been announced as winners of University College Dublin’s (UCD) inaugural...
N.Ireland
CattleEye secures $2.5 million seed investment to launch autonomous stock monitoring system
Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company CattleEye has closed a $2.5 million (€2.1 million) seed investment round. The money has come...
Agri-Business
From microbials to nanosatellites: Meet the 17 start-ups driving the agri-tech revolution
The inventors behind 17 agri-tech solutions will present their ground-breaking technologies at this year’s virtual World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit. The...
N.Ireland
World Agri-Tech Summit announces start-up innovation challenge
Entries are now open for the World Agri-Tech challenge for start-ups with innovative solutions to support sustainable agriculture. The World...
Agri-Business
Farm automation 'hackathon' to generate ideas to make farm robotics safer
While the advancement of autonomous farm vehicles offers new economic and environmental benefits, their future growth also presents the new...
Agri-Business
Ag-tech experts and growers to create prototype robotic lettuce harvester
Work is underway in the UK to develop a robotic solution to horticultural labour shortages to help secure the harvest...
Sponsored
Cow monitoring app 'means we can stay farming for longer'
Sylvia and John Powell installed Nedap cow monitoring on their 250-strong herd in February 2023. Farming just outside Birr, Co....
Agri-Business
UCD launches new accelerator programme for agtech and foodtech start-ups
A new accelerator programme dedicated to early-stage agtech and foodtech start-up companies has been launched by University College Dublin (UCD)....
N.Ireland
Agri-tech earmarked as pillar of NI's post-pandemic '10X Economy' plan
Agri-technology has been picked out as one of five pillars central to a new strategy to ’10X’ Northern Ireland’s economy....
N.Ireland
Nine new CAFRE Dairy Technology Demonstration Farms appointed
Nine commercial Northern Ireland dairy farms have been selected to showcase how technology could solve common farm problems and boost...
Agri-Business
Agtech Ireland: New body launched to represent the agtech industry
Ireland has the potential to become “a real leader” in agricultural technology (agtech), as long as the “right ecosystem” is...