The prestigious Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) Technical Innovation Awards have been bestowed upon some of the field’s top visionaries. This year saw a record number of awards, according to a report by Farmers Weekly.
The society’s gold awards can only be won by entrants that have previously been awarded silver and have displayed continuing outstanding merit.
This year the gold awards went to:
- Landy & Dyson of Skipton, North Yorkshire for its Landy power take-off hot water pressure washer, which draws all of its power from a tractor, operates at up to 206 bars of pressure, and can supply 30 litres of water per minute at up to 90°C
- Limagrain UK for its winter wheat breeding programme, which has produced high-yield grains that have proven successful in Scottish growing conditions
The silver awards were presented to:
- Herd Advance for its Herd Advance Stockman computer system, which monitors the weight, water intake and body temperature of cattle on a smartphone
- Lely Holding for Discovery Collector 120, a cattle shed cleaner that vacuums rather than scoops
- Murray Machinery’s gravel road grader which can reinstate gravel roads that are damaged or otherwise worn
- Peel Tech’s UV filtration system, which can capture excess potato peel, starch, and recycle associated water that would otherwise be lost
- Polaris Britain’s Polaris Ranger XP1000 ABS – the world’s first utility vehicle to feature an anti-lock braking system combined with an active descent control system
- Pottinger Landtechnik for its Impress round baler, which passes crop over the feed rotor rather than underneath, resulting in a lower power draw
