Big dreams for a little forwarder

With a small log carrier that’s especially designed for Irish woodlands, Meath company Falcon has won the overall prize in the Innovation Arena awards at the National Ploughing Championships.

This award and the agri-engineering start-up award which it also collected at the championships, has given a major boost to the two-year-old company, which sold its first mini-Falcon forwarder in the summer.

“We have got a lot of media coverage which is very important for a young company like ours. We received a prize of €1,500, which will allow us showcase the Falcon at the UK farm machinery show, Lamma next year,” says director and co-founder Marcia Franklin.