EuroTier 2014: Six Gold Medals and Fifteen Silver Medals for Innovations

EuroTier is the largest innovations marketplace of the European and world market for machinery, installations and farm inputs for professional animal husbandry. This was impressively confirmed by the 270 innovations submitted by altogether 156 exhibitors from 19 countries to the EuroTier organizer DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society). A neutral and internationally staffed commission of experts including farmers, that was appointed by DLG has awarded Gold Medals for six innovations and with Silver Medals for a further fifteen innovations on the basis of strict criteria.

Gold Medals for innovations:

• “PEF-System” Big Dutchman Pig Equipment GmbH, Vechta, Germany, Hall 11, Stand C23
• “Porky´s Pick Up” Meier-Brakenberg GmbH & Co. KG, Extertal, Germany, Hall 9, Stand G16
• “cows and more, what cows tell us. A system for rating, assessing and advising” Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bad Sassendorf, Germany, Hall 26, Stand C08
• “RotoPuls milking machine pulsator” BITEC Engineering, Romanshorn, Switzerland, Hall 27, Stand F52
• “Swiftflo Goat Rotary” Dairymaster, Causeway, Co. Kerry, Ireland, Hall 27, Stand B32
• “HyCare ®” Schippers GmbH, Kerken-Nieukerk, Germany, Hall 9, Stand H25

Silver Medals for innovations:

• “GELAMIN FaserGold” GELAMIN - Gesellschaft für Tierernährung mbH, Wildeshausen, Germany, Hall 9, Stand H15
• Shaft washer “Flexi” Meier-Brakenberg Gmbh & Co. KG, Extertal, Germany, Hall 9, Stand G16
• “FixClip valve – The hygienic drinker valve with practical clip closure” Albert Kerbl GmbH, Buchbach, Germany, Hall 13, Stand E48
• “GEA Conductive Cooling” GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen, Germany, Hall 27, Stand D29
• “Management and feeding systems for suckling calves with integrated collection of animal welfare indicators” URBAN GmbH & Co. KG, Hude, OT Wüsting, Germany, Hall 27, Stand A14
• “Level-regulated agitator” Big Dutchman Pig Equipment GmbH, Vechta, Germany, Hall 11, Stand C23
• “ConditWatch” Institut für Agrar- und Stadtökologische Projekte (IASP), Berlin, Germany, Hall 12, Stand E16 and Convia GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Hall 12, Stand E16, and AGRAR Handelspartner Woldegk GmbH, Woldegk, Germany, Hall 12, Stand E16
• “ForceControll” Witte Lastrup GmbH, Lastrup, Germany, Hall 11, Stand E56
• “ARV climate computer” Möller GmbH, Diepholz, Germany, Hall 11, Stand B18 and Universität Bonn, Institut für Landtechnik, Bonn, Germany, Hall 26, Stand D16
• “DairyNet by GEA in 365FarmNet” 365FarmNet Group GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, Hall 26, Stand E30 and GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen, Germany, Hall 27, Stand D29
• “Control-VAC° signal element” and “™AktivPuls with SSC technology” AktivPuls GmbH, Friesenried, Germany, Hall 27, Stand F40
• “InService™ Remote” DeLaval International AB, Tumba, Sweden, Hall 27, Stand H39
• “Pellon Manure Master” Pellon Group Oy, Ylihärmä, Finland, Hall 25, Stand D16
• “Hydraulically retractable Rops-Fops roof (driver protection roof)” THALER GmbH & Co. KG, Polling, Germany, Hall 26, Stand H22
• “epsPlus (Easy Protection System Plus)” Weidemann GmbH, Diemelsee-Flechtdorf, Germany, Hall 26, Stand E13a