Finalists & Winners

Agrifood Business Awards

★ Best Adaptation Product

  • Samco: MATER-BI mulching film

  • Sealac: Ascophyllum Nodosum seaweed 

  • Spreadpoint: SX-A Auger System

  • 🏆 Tama Ireland: EZ Web

★ AgTech Ireland Best Agritech Software Product

  • Concept Dairy: Concept Dairy 3Fs Farmer Margin Locking Tool

  • Equine MediRecord: Equine Medirecord

  • 🏆 Herdwatch: Grass & Crops solution

★ AgTech Ireland Best Agritech Hardware Product

  • 🏆 Agri Data Analytics: The Bovine Breathalyser

  • LvLogics: SiloSpi

  • Moonsyst: The Moonsyst Smart Rumen Monitoring system

★ AgTech Ireland Best Agritech Science Product

  • 🏆 Brandon Bioscience: PSI® 362 Precision Technology

  • DSM Nutrition: DSM-Firmenich

  • Precision Microbes: Precision Microbes

★ KPMG Large Sustainable Food Producer of the year (over 20 employees)

  • ABC Nutritionals

  • 🏆 Flynns Irish Tomatoes

  • McCormack Family Farms

  • Meade Farm / Meade Potato Starch

★ Small Sustainable Food Producer of the year (under 20 employees)

  • 🏆 Ballykilcavan Brewery, Co. Laois

  • Bo Rua, Co. Cork

  • Feighery’s Farm, Co. Offaly

  • Fox Covert Partnership, Co. Offaly

★ Business Post Best Incentive Scheme from a food producer or co-op

  • Financial Bonus Payment, Irish Hereford Prime

  • Advantage Beef Programme, ABP

  • 🏆 Evolve, Kerry

  • Elite Breed Improvement Programme, Certified Irish Angus

Research Awards

★ Best Research Programme/Project

  • 🏆 ABP Demo Farm To increase the Economic and Environmental sustainability of beef production

  • FRS Network Research Report On The Outlook Of External Farm Labour Support in Ireland

  • The Galway Wool Co-op/ MiCRA Gateway Technology TUD

  • The MainstreamBIO Initiative

★ Young Researcher of the year

  • Dr. Aoibhín Moore Heslin

  • 🏆 Laura Paire

  • Sofia Tisocco

★ Best Journalistic Content of the year

  • Emma Hart (Farmers Journal)

  • Irish Medical Times

  • Noel Clancy (Out the Gap Podcast)

  • 🏆 Rachel Martin (Irish Examiner)

Farmer Awards

★ Herdwatch Biodiversity Farmer of the year

  • Adrian Egan, Co. Offaly

  • 🏆 Liam Kildea, Co. Roscommon

  • Maria Phelan, Co. Laois

  • Sinead Moran, Co. Mayo

★ Kerry Dairy Environmental Farmer of the year

  • Ailbhe Gerrard, Co. Tipperary

  • 🏆 David Walsh Kemmis, Co. Laois

  • Kenneth O'Donnell, Co. Mayo

  • Whyte Bros Farms, Co. Dublin

★ AHV Innovator Farmer of the year

  • 🏆 Nick Cotter, Co. Limerick

  • Paula and Peter Hynes, Co. Cork

  • Shane McAuliffe, Co. Kerry

  • Tom Barry, Co. Cork

★ Germinal Sustainable Pasture Farmer of the year

  • Jimmy Madigan, Co. Kilkenny

  • 🏆 Michael Doran, Co. Wexford

  • Peadar and Aoife Coyle, Co. Roscommon

  • Trevor Cobbe, Co. Laois

★ FRS Network Diversification Farmer of the year

  • 🏆 Anne Marie Feighery, Co. Offaly

  • Brendan Guinan, Co. Laois

  • Peter O'Sullivan, Co. Wicklow

  • Stephen Morrison, Co. Kildare

Community Awards

★ ABP Best Public/Community Engagement Scheme

  • Agri Aware’s Open Farm Day, Agri Aware

  • AgriKids - Engage, Educate and Empower children to be farm safety ambassadors, Agri Kids

  • 🏆 The Social Farming Ireland initiative, Social Farming

★ Cormac Tagging Community/Discussion Group Incentive Scheme

  • Digital Skills for SMART Farming programme

  • The Galway Wool Co-op

  • 🏆 The Waterford Upland Sheep Discussion Group

  • Uí Maine Kingdom, Karst Farming

★ Community/Discussion Group Better Farming Champion

🏆 Dinny Galvin

Headline Awards

★ Agri Insider Sustainability Leader Award

🏆 Frank O’Mara

★ FBD Overall Better Farming Champion

🏆 Nick Cotter