Agri-Business
Watch: Buckets to calf feeders as JFC launches new facility
JFC Group, which includes JFC Agri, marked a €25 million expansion plan for the company with a special mass and...
Agri-Tech
Beef
Foyle farm suckler herd trials 'virtual fencing' for hill grazing
Foyle Food Group’s ‘Farms of Excellence’ in Co. Tyrone has partnered with a Norwegian-based agri-tech company in a new hill-farm...
Dairy
Dairy production and processing research to get multi-million euro injection
Four Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centres are set to share in a €104 million investment boost, including one that...
Agri-Business
Attracting and retaining talent a challenge for agri-tech sector
One of the major challenges facing Ireland’s rapidly expanding agri-tech sector is attracting and retaining staff, an event in Co....
Agri-Business
Dutch company secures €40m loan to end culling of male chicks
Dutch agri-tech company, In Ovo has entered a €40 million loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to end...
Agri-Business
NZ group travels to Kerry to discuss potential of agri-tech
New Zealand (NZ) agri-tech associations travelled to meet with leading researchers and companies at Munster Technological University (MTU) in Co....
Rural Life
Clonmel wins award for helping farmers use technology
Clonmel has emerged as the overall winner at the .IE Digital Town Awards 2023 for a project created to help...
Agri-Business
New AgTech guide aims to cut farm costs and workload
A new agricultural technology guide will help to decrease farm input costs and cut workload, according to the Irish Farmers’...
Agri-Business
Kildare agri-tech company takes top honours at Ploughing
A Co. Kildare agri-tech company has scooped a national award for an invention that provides real-time body condition scoring for...
Agri-Business
€1.3m investment for agri-tech start-up aimed at reduced fertiliser use
An agri-tech start-up that seeks to accelerate its use of microbes to treat crop seeds to produce healthier plants and...
Agri-Business
Irish/NZ agri-tech summit - don't forget to register
Agri-tech researchers, innovators and investors from New Zealand and Ireland will come together this evening (Monday, March 14) to share...
Agri-Business
Industry-first as Irish/NZ agri-tech summit ready to go
In an industry first, agri-tech researchers, innovators and investors from New Zealand and Ireland will come together to share their...
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...
Agri-Business
Herdwatch and UCD team up for agri-tech business training
Farm management solutions business Herdwatch has partnered with University College Dublin (UCD) to launch a new ‘accelerator programme’ that will...
N.Ireland
NI agri-food to take a leaf from the aerospace industry
Northern Ireland’s agri-food industry is to take a leaf from the aerospace industry’s book, in harnessing robots within production lines....