Arena Awards recognise innovation in agriculture
Paddy Casey, Target Fertilisers; James Maloney, Enterprise Ireland and Oliver Kiernan, Brandon Bioscience and the Innovation Arena Awards.
The Terra range of fertilisers with potential to reduce chemical nitrogen input on farms as much as 20%, without a crop yield penalty, is the overall winner in Enterprise Ireland's 2021 Innovation Arena Awards.
It also won the Sustainable Agriculture Award category award, for Brandon Bioscience, a marine biotech company in Tralee, Co Kerry, which collaborated with manufacturer Target Fertilisers, to produce the fertiliser with Brandon’s innovative biostimulant product based on extracts from common brown seaweed.
