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Kerry Winners On First Day At Ploughing Championships

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Kerry’s Dairymaster had a very good day at the National Ploughing Championships recently where it won two top awards.

A CAUSEWAY based company has recently emerged on top at the National Ploughing Championships, currently taking place in Laois, where it scooped two top awards in the area of technology and innovation.

Elsewhere there were two Kerry winners in the ploughing events.

Dairymaster’s ‘Swiftflo Commander’ took home the prestigious honour of winning the National Ploughing Championships Innovation Award as well as the award for the Best Agri-Software Technology.

The innovation awards, which saw close to 170 entries, had a shared top prize of €65,000 which was shared amongst a dozen companies.

With Dairymaster ‘Swiftflo Commander’ being named the winner, the company/award earned a massive chunk of this total share, with a €15,000 take home prize.

The device is one that highlights information about each cow in the parlor including milk yield, milking time and the somatic cell count data for each cow.

They weren’t the only Kerry winners on the day, with Aeneas Horan from Castleisland winning top prize in the Vintage 2Furrow Trailer Class in the Ploughing Competition, while Tommy McCarthy from Abbeydorney won first in the Intermediate Reversible Class.

Well done to all.