Agri-Innovation Awards

Mix-O-Matic

Mix-O-Matic is an automated 5-channel liquid chemical mixing system. Each channel drives a primary mover (pump) and has a volumetric sensor to measure the volume moved. 

(Site: W440A)

The Scraper 

The Scraper, an ultimate tool that is made from high quality stainless steel that helps to quickly and easily remove milk fat/protein build up on your double vacuum and milk line rubberware. Improves shed hygiene, reduces mastitis risk for better milk quality. 

(Site: C63)

Digital Assistant

AI-powered, preventive health management. The unique bolus technology provides insights from within the cow's reticulum, measuring the most reliable indicator or cow health - inner body temperature - with unrivalled accuracy. It also tracks water intake and drinking cycles, rumination, and overall activity, providing data no other system can.

(Site: C6/7)

Tow Behind Road Grader Machine

This machine is designed to work on a variety of hard surfaces, including gravel roads, farm tracks, dairy lanes, and previously unworkable land. One of the standout features is its ability to thoroughly break down the entire surface of gravel roads, effectively addressing potholes and corrugations. By mixing the material, it ensures an even consistency while

the catch blade re-mixes and redistributes the material, creating a crowned surface over a well-prepared base. 

(Site: M825)

Portable Hydraulic Nail Puller

A portable hydraulic nail puller for vineyard posts. The nail puller clamps down on the clips and nails to pull them out, when a dropsaw can then dock them for uniformed sizing. 

(Site: L16)

Mackwell A35 Engine and Mackwell G26 Generator

Mackwell Generators directly convert biomass into on-demand power and heat, enabling off-grid households, communities and industries to become energy sovereign. Agile, compact and mobile, able to operate off-grid, our Generators can provide energy certainty whilst reducing costs by at least 50% compared to diesel generators, and CO2-e emissions by over 96%. 

(Site: W341)

Ramrack

The RamRack was inspired by 

the need for a single person to safely lift and transport heavy and awkward items from ground level. As an innovative lifting system for UTVs, RamRack is a collapsible, adjustable carrying device attached to the front of the vehicle, lowering to ground level via a 20:1 hand winch and guide 

system similar to a forklift. 

(Site: M873)

Synergy Heat

Synergy Heat is an Agri tech product developed to be fitted to existing dairy hot water cylinders. Our systems automate water heating to make the best use of  cheap power, such as night rates, and reduce how long a water heater is in standby heating. The result is good operational savings for a farm with little to no change in operations. (Site: M114)

E-drive PWM Adapter

A challenge arises when pairing legacy E-drive motors with your seed drill or integrating a new third-party E-drive motor into your metering unit, only to find that the tractor console computer cannot drive it. This device adapts the typical low-power communication PWM socket of the tractor console computer to a high-power E-drive system, such as the FieldMate 3 E-drive Power Unit, capable of driving up to four E-drive motors through a set of PWM interfaces. 

(Site: C42/43)

Nanobubble Agritech pivot system

A novel NZ developed pivot retrofitable system, that supersaturates irrigation water with oxygen nanobubbles, and applies this directly to soil using mobile drip technology.

(Site: C88)

Hose Runner

The Plucks Engineering Hose Runner is towable by a 4x4, ute, or side-by-side, and can lay, or wind up 300 meters of 20mm alkathene hose within minutes. That’s right, it lays and winds up the hose easily, no effort

(Site: M771 - M772)