By Jenny Melia

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Galway innovators GlasPort Bio have won the ‘Green Impact Award’ at the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena competition at the National Ploughing Championships for 2025.

The ‘Green Impact Award’ recognises an innovation focused on sustaining the development of food and farming for future generations to come, and the team were presented with their prize by Jenny Melia, CEO, Enterprise Ireland, at a ceremony at the National Ploughing Championships last week.Their innovation ‘GasAbate’ is a science-backed manure management system which cuts emissions while also reducing agitation time for farmers

GasAbate by GlasPort Bio is a science-backed manure management system that cuts emissions while also reducing agitation time for farmers.

Independent trials have shown that when injected into stored cattle and pig slurry, it reduces methane emissions by?80%, hydrogen sulphide by 80% and ammonia by 50%. It also delivers increased crop growth, reduces odours and improves the biomethane yield.

GlasPort Bio’s proprietary dosage and verification system – Compli360 – delivers live farm data to its cloud-based reporting platform, supporting compliance with climate targets and sustainability standards, allowing farmers and the food chain to generate robust carbon insets.

Having only started its commercialisation journey in mid-2025, GlasPort Bio is on track to deliver projects that will remove 12,000 tonnes of carbon from EU food production on an annualised basis.?

Herdwatch won this year’s ‘Innovation Arena Champion Award’, while ScanInsights was named as winner of the 2025 ‘Start-Up Innovator of the Year Award’.

A total of nine companies participated in the live final at Enterprise Ireland’s InnovationArena yesterday afternoon, with three companies delivering a live pitch in three different categories. AI-driven tools to inform decisions on farms, a solar powered feeding machine and low-emission manure management systems were among the cutting-edge solutions which took centre stage in this year’s final.

The other finalists in the ‘Start-Up of the Year’ category were SM Advanced Technologies,and VetPal. Hibra Design and Slurry Quip were the other finalists in the ‘Green Impact Award’ and pitched today, while Cormac Tagging and Pearson Milking Technology were the other finalists for the ‘2025 Innovation Arena Champion Award’.

This is the 12th annual Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards, and the focus of this year’s exhibition is ‘Accelerate Sustainable Irish Agri Business’, showcasing pioneering solutions from Irish agritech innovators to thousands of visitors and international buyers at one of Europe’s largest outdoor events.

Among this year’s exhibition, there is a strong focus on AI-driven technologies and sustainable innovations, designed to support farmers to make more informed decisions, and to help create more efficient, safer and sustainable practices on farms, as well as optimising operations and helping to create savings in terms of time and costs.

Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena is one of the most visited exhibitions annually at the National Ploughing Championships. Over the course of the event, 40 Irish agritech companies, researchers and academia will have the opportunity to showcase their trailblazing products and innovations, which are focused on solving a broad spectrum of global challenges, across areas such as animal science and technology, agri-engineering, animal health and nutrition, sustainability, climate action, and farm health and safety.

Irish agritech companies supported by Enterprise Ireland are economic pillars in towns and communities across the country, with exports reaching €875m in 2024 and employing almost 5,000 people. These companies are delivering products and services in the areas of farm equipment, livestock handling and housing, smart farming solutions, crop cultivation and protection, as well as animal health and nutrition.

Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting Irish-owned companies to start, compete, scale and connect, and the Innovation Arena helps to foster the development of agritech innovators and to accelerate their business in domestic and global markets.