Award in the bag for Samco

The Samco Bag Press helped Samuel Shine from Adare in Co Limerick win the Rural Business Category of the recently announced Dairymaster Rural Innovation Awards.

Mr Shine said, “Samco’s business idea is to provide farmers with a low cost solution to on-farm storage of high quality fermented feed without the need for drying. The Samco Bag Press is ideal for buffer feeding during the grazing season, storing forage maize, brewer’s grain, chopped sugar beet and other such products.”

Best known for their maize growing machine which sows the seed, sprays the ground with a pre-emergence herbicide, and covers the embedded seed with a degradable film, Samco developed a bag press as an innovative solution for storing moist feed on livestock farms cost effectively.