Скачать или смотреть RDS Sustainable Rural Innovation Award Winner 2020 - The Cotter Crate, Co. Limerick

The 2020 Sustainable Rural Innovation Award went to The Cotter Crate, Co. Limerick.

The Cotter Crate is a lamb handling system developed by brothers Jack and Nick Cotter that facilitates the quick, safe, easy and accurate administration of doses, drenches and vaccines to lambs from 3 weeks of age. The innovation lies in how the lambs are safely and comfortably held in the crate allowing the farmer or flock owner to administer multiple treatments quickly and accurately.

This is the brothers’ third venture having started Cotter Bros Firewood in 2011 and Cotter Organic Lamb in 2019. Their 100% grass-fed lamb produced on their farm outside Abbeyfeale won an Irish Quality Food Award. Nick received recognition for the Cotter Brothers’ entrepreneurial successes from UCC, being awarded a Quercus Innovation/Entrepreneurship Scholarship in 2019.

The RDS has encouraged innovation and best practice in Irish agriculture since its foundation in 1731. The RDS Sustainable Agriculture Awards are a continuation of this tradition with a renewed focus on sustainability as Ireland tackles the climate change challenge over the next decade.