The first ever Dairymaster Rural Innovation Awards Ceremony was held Tuesday night 26th May at Ballygarry House Hotel, Tralee with over 240 attendees. The competition was open to innovators from every county in Ireland and finalists from the four provinces were in attendance. Prizes were awarded in three categories, plus the overall Dairymaster Rural Innovation Award. […]
Many of the farmers I know are born engineers: witness the enthusiasm for machinery, both vintage and cutting-edge, at summer agriculture shows around the country. But as this BBC report suggests, the most successful agricultural entrepreneurs are sympathetic to nature as well as technology. Based in Causeway, Co Kerry, and run by former Entrepreneur of the Year Dr Edmond Harty, […]
Agriland is a website focused on the agribusiness sector which launched this summer and has seen exponential traffic growth in the past few months. The brainchild of Cormac Farrelly, he filled us in on its genesis when we caught up with him at Blog Awards Ireland, where Agriland were sponsors of the Great Outdoors category. […]
We’ve got a lot of video on the way from our recent adventures at the IIA Net Visionary Awards and the National Ploughing Championships. Here’s the first of these, featuring an interview with two ladies who discovered that the best way to teach social media to busy people is to use the internet itself. Who […]
