The potential and the benefits of the chipless, wireless transmission system are believed by scientists to be vast.

A new power harrow and drill combo with the potential to reduce fuel consumption by as much as 20% is among the new pre-Agritechnica machinery launches destined for the Irish market.

Environmental concerns are central to most of Kverneland's innovations this year.

“We expect it to double within four to five years, and then another doubling after that.”

Even at its $1m price tag, the breakeven on 200 acres is said to be only two or three years.

A 'world-first' technology breakthrough will allow Irish farmers to use satellites to measure grass growth.

It's not just 'click and collect' purchases that'll send you a text when they're ready, these days even livestock can let you know with a quick text when they are ready to go.

Farm Tractor & Machinery Trade Association show will take place at Punchestown Racecourse, Kildare, next month

By the time the acquisition is completed, more than a third of Irish dairy farms will be on the Herdwatch platform.

It is nice to be back to reality on the farm post wedding, the honeymoon is well and truly over and my first task on my return was taking faecal samples from our calves, I think that was as far from the Italian Riviera as you could be.

Tipperary-based farm software company Herdwatch has announced a deal which will see the firm take on clients from a long-established agricultural software provider in the UK.

Using the science of ballistics and precision farming principles to reduce fertiliser use.

There was no Google, no Green Certs, no webinars — but there was great ingenuity and a wide range of skills 

With so much attention on pollinators, it was probably inevitable that some clever agricultural innovator would ask the question, why not use bees to deliver biological control agents to flowers and certain crops?It was the team at Bee Vectoring ...

New industry body AgTech Ireland has announced the appointment of Catherine Lascurettes as its first Chief Operations Officer (COO).

The bill allows techniques such as genome editing, for example, which can shorten the eight to 20-year conventional development of an improved crop to less than four years.

Researchers said there was a 67.1% cure rate and a 64.6% recovery rate in cows with clinical signs of mastitis or with SCC over 400,000 cells/ml in the most recent test.

New for 2023 is the chance for previous participants to apply for a space in the new 'AgTech Hub' within the arena.

If humans rely more on food from greenhouses in the future, pollination robots will probably play a vital role. They are already being used in tomato greenhouses.

Not many can boast of bringing space-age technology to farms around the world, yet that's exactly the case for Silicon Valley-based ag-tech firm Verdant Robotics.

Sowing and growing is one thing, but one of the most difficult tasks on any fruit farm is the arduous and often manual task of harvesting the crop.

Vertical farms, an indoor cropping idea which attracted hundreds of millions in venture capital investment, are reportedly falling on hard times.

Researchers in Tokyo with backing from tech giant Sony have developed a novel robot, with the ability to sow, prune, and harvest plants, helping to achieve large-scale “synecoculture farming”.

Ag-tech is a flourishing industry, having exploded from a $1bn annual global spend in 2012, to $10.2bn a decade later in 2022.

Soil health will become increasingly important for farmers in the EU, where 61. 5% of soils are unhealthy, according to official data. New EU laws target healthy soils by 2050, with concrete actions towards this target in place by 2030.

The most valuable eggs in Ireland could be produced by Ovagen, the Co Mayo biotechnology company that has developed the world’s first 'germ-free' eggs, for use in vaccine manufacture and other pharmaceutical and research applications.

The device is made by UFAC-UK, who say it can reduce the feed carbon footprint per kilo of milk by 11%, compared to a palm-based supplement.

Scientists in Wales are examining the potential of duckweed to harness the nutrients in slurry to produce a high-protein feed for livestock. The work at Aberystwyth University builds on work carried out in collaboration with Unversity College Cork.

Using acidifiers in slurry reduces ammonia and emissions but costs, regulations, impact on soil and uncertainties around safety are a concern, writes Stephen Cadogan

A new National Centre for Agri-food Research and Innovation will be established to accelerate the development of new technologies to help Irish agriculture meet its government-set goal of lowering emissions by 25% by 2030.

Many of us might struggle to recall our mobile number at times, but a soon a new number could be top of the minds of Irish farmers.

The advantages of self-propelled driverless tractors are now available on almost all Fendt Vario tractors, if you fit an Iquus kit, says the Danish company, AG Precision.

If you are looking for better ways to protect hydraulic couplings, open big bags, or automate hitching on or off to heavy machinery, there were interesting ideas in the new products at the Agromek agricultural fair in Denmark.

A partnership between scientific and agricultural industry bodies has been recognised by Knowledge Transfer Ireland for their work to help the Irish dairy industry improve its detection of chlorate residues.

Construction has begun at a new €4. 8m facility at University College Dublin which will incorporate the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre and the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub at UCD Lyons Farm.

The company currently has a team of 60 people, and plans to increase this to 80 over the next two years, to support its international growth and farm digitalisation efforts

Infarm said its first indoor wheat trial had demonstrated "exceptional results".

Infarm said its first indoor wheat trial had demonstrated "exceptional results".

Members of the RGFI said they have an ambition to achieve 2.5TWh of biomethane by 2030, and 9.5TWh by 2050.

Irish agricultural innovators have been punching above their weight, claiming three of the seven top prizes at the SIMA Farming Awards.

A “game changer” feed additive with the potential to reduce livestock methane emissions by a minimum of 30% has come out tops at this year’s National Dairy Show Innovation Awards. Bovaer was developed by Dutch firm DSM.

12 start-ups have been selected for the second year of the programme.

It is open to those in the agri-food sector, farming community, students, and academics.

A Cork-based agri-tech business is eyeing global expansion over the coming years.