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Eyrecourt farmer Richard Bournes won a Sustainable Quality Beef Producer Award at the National Ploughing Championships, in New Ross, Co Wexford last week.

Eileen Reidy from Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone, will attend the Euro Science Open Forum 2012 in the Convention Centre Dublin, next Friday July 13. Earlier this year, Eileen participated in Agri Aware’s Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge where her idea of helping seeds to grow in drought conditions using hydrogel polymers (gel in which water is the main dispersion medium) won her the top prize of a €7,000 development fund. Along with this prize fund, Eileen was also awarded the opportunity to showcase her idea at this year’s Euro Science Open Forum, a week-long event that will be attended by over 6,000 scientists, business leaders, and government officials from across Europe.

Budding entrepreneurs are being encouraged to develop their ideas for the upcoming challenge of the Green Dragon National Heat in February.

Diagnosing cancer, maintaining a healthy gut, and improving baby formula are just some of the challenges which glycoscience researchers at NUI Galway are undertaking.

Dairy farmers John and PJ O’Keeffe from Court-na-Boola, Callan, Co Kilkenny, were among the cream of the crop when they were short-listed among the top national finalists for the NDC Quality Milk Awards, which sets out to identify and reward our top dairy farmers.

The first meeting of the Glanbia DII Sustainability Advisory Group took place in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny on July 13. This follows the announcement in May that Glanbia is to further develop its sustainability programme with an on-farm programme for its 4,300 Irish milk suppliers.

Thousands of beef farmers descended on Kilkenny this week to attend an important conference organised to discuss beef production in this country as an industry.

Two Kilkenny enterprises have made it to the final of the 2010/11 JFC Innovation Awards, with a prize fund worth €40,000.

Rural entrepreneurs and rural development activists from all counties will be in attendance at the National Rural Development Conference in the Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore on Wednesday February 2. The conference was due to take place on December 2 but had to be called off due to the weather.

Enterprising rural entrepreneurs and farmers from Mayo have been urged to submit their inspiring business ideas for the 2010/11 JFC Innovation Awards, with a prize fund worth €40,000.