Uncovering secrets of soil

WELL informed farmers made a beeline for the Greenplan Limited stand when they arrived at the Ploughing Championships over the past two days.

Only the most up-to-date knew that Greenplan were finalists last Monday in the Westmeath Enterprise Awards for the soil mapping and sampling system which they launched this week at the Ploughing.

Some have been following the progress of this system throughout its development at the Tralee Institute of Technology, where Richard Hayden was closely involved in what he calls “non-invasive soil scanning”.