Innovation Arena opens for entries for Ploughing 2024

The overall start-up award winner will receive a €10,000 prize as well as mentoring support from specialist Enterprise Ireland advisors.

Leo Clancy, CEO, Enterprise Ireland; Anna May McHugh, NPA Managing Director; and James Maloney, Senior Development Adviser, Enterprise Ireland launching this year's Innovation Arena Awards. Picture: John Ohle for Coalesce.

Entries are now open for Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena Awards at the 2024 National Ploughing Championships The event is an annual exhibition platform showcasing cutting-edge solutions from Irish agri-tech companies and innovators. The closing date for entries is 5pm on June 7.

Entries are being invited from Irish-owned companies, research, and academia, who have pioneering innovations with the potential to deliver solutions for the agriculture sector that could help to optimise and futureproof the industry.