Author: National Ploughing Association

We are PACDOG and are exhibiting on Block No.3 Row 33 Stand Number 779.

We have exhibited at the show since 2008 and would love any media exposure and invite customers to call to our stand where we will have deomo’s of all our equipment.

PACDOG was established in 1989, as an entrepreneurial, Irish business in Co Kilkenny, to design, manufacture and supply equipment which addresses the problems of conventional training, enabling users to train and contain their own dogs.

In just over 25 years, having supplied hundreds of thousands of PACDOG Remote Trainers,Containment Systems,Bark Controllers,High Vis Dog Leads and High Vis Dog Collars across the world,
they have saved the lives, or significantly improved, the ‘lot’ of a correspondingly huge number of dogs.

PACDOG System Experts are now a well-respected, leading international company, where, such is the success of its reliability, dependability, humaneness and customer service,
even today, much of its business still results from ‘word of mouth’ recommendations.

We also now supply the PAC Buzz Remote Trainer system, it gives the dog a tone pre-warning followed by a very strong vibration which gives the dog a “good shake” as correction to get his attention at a distance, it cannot give the stimulus.

Our new Dog Tracker Collar is the latest in dog tracking technology. Handles the tracking of your dog in real-time with a GPS receiver. Housed in a robust, yet comfortable collar. Also has a status led light. This, easily allows you to identify if the collar is broadcasting. This collar is used in combination with your smart phone. Android and Windows app available.  Which is packed full features.

This collar is capable of tracking your dog (or other animals) in real-time anywhere in the world. Call and here what you dog is hearing. Give commands through the collar. Change the reporting time. This collar uses GPS and GSM technologies, meaning that you will have coverage even in the most remote of areas. The app tells you the signal strength of the collar, battery status., and much, much more. All of this included in the purchase of the collar

Start a hunt or join an active hunt group.
See participants (incl hunting dog in real time)
Participant info (name, distance, phone number.)
Choosing roles (Hunter, Beater, dog etc.)
Free chat during hunting.
Speed dialling during hunting.
Hunting event marking, sharing with others
Setting target point
Marking down hunting objects and sharing (feeders etc.)
Zoom in and out with basic map, satellite, terrain and hybrid.

Plus many more features available with the premium version of the app ( including Measuring distances, setting dog or hunter as target point, movement history, hunt replay on Huntloc portal. and much, much more.)

Visit pacdog.ie for further details.

SalesOptimize opens the door to the $1.9 trillion global e-Commerce market. They have mapped the internet to find all the online shops in the world.  Irish owned start up SalesOptimize has developed a B2B search engine with a difference. It is a marketing analysis & sales lead generation search engine designed to help businesses sell and break into the e-Commerce market.
e-Commerce is the business of selling online – a rapidly growing market that is estimated to be worth $1.9 trillion
Since it was set up in 2013, SalesOptimize, which is a High Potential Start Up (HPSU) supported by Enterprise Ireland, has been researching and building its Business-to-Business (B2B) online sales lead generation platform. Using the latest data mining and analytics technology, its research team has compiled contact details and key data on over 1.7 million active online shops globally.
The data available to SalesOptimize users includes crucial intelligence such as contact details of key executives (in many cases email and/or telephone numbers), how much revenue is generated by that site, payment platform and shipping service used, e-Commerce technology and more.
“For most products or services, as long as they can be ordered on the internet, we can deliver first class, qualified leads,” commented co-founder and CEO, Liz Fulham. “Say you make wellies, for example, we can supply well researched contact details for global websites that sell wellington boots.”
“And in reverse, if you’re on the look out to buy wellies in time for the Ploughing Championships, we can tell you the best websites to go to – saving you time trawling the net for hours looking for online shops that sell wellies!’
The SalesOptimize service went live in February this year. Already it has generated a number of Irish and international brands and has created 11 jobs in Ireland.
Liz Fulham their CEO has been excited by the reaction when she presents. One financial adviser commented, “This can become a $200m company very quickly.”
The service, starts at $299 (€266) per month for 150 sales leads. This provides access to over 1.7m online shops across over 20 countries. It is designed to be integrated if a company has a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system including Salesforce, Close.io and others.
The potential of SalesOptimize is reflected in the fact that the company has already received five requests from customers and prospective buyers for exclusivity. In other words, the customers thought the technology was so powerful that they didn’t want SalesOptimize to sell it to their competitors.
“We don’t do exclusive deals. It’s against our philosophy plus there’s enough rich data and sales contact information in our system to go round everyone,” comments Liz. We are here to help people grow their sales internationally and help Ireland be a dominant player in Big Data Analytics and e-Commerce
A free trial of SalesOptimize’s sales lead search engine is available on https://www.salesoptimize.com/trial/

2016 has seen the launch of two new Carbery Plastics products that are aimed at improving farm yard efficiency, safety and security. Carbery Plastics launched the Carbery Plastics 6,000 Litre Fuel Management System earlier this year. This system provides the ability to analyse fleet fuel consumption per vehicle and/or per driver allowing for more efficient fuel use, fuel storage and over all fuel management. 2016 has also seen the launch of the Carbery Plastics Chemical Bund Store, which provides safe and secure storage of agricultural chemicals such as pesticides and fungicides. The Chemical Bund Store is designed and manufactured tocontrolled containment of any possible chemical or hazardous spills,and meets the chemical storage requirements expected by inspectors during Department of Agriculture’s Cross Compliance and BordBia’s inspections.Carbery Plastics will be displaying the Carbery Plastics 6,000 Litre Fuel Management Systemand the Carbery Plastics Chemical Bund Store at their stand at the 2016 Plough Championships. Stand: Block 4, Row 23, Stand 572.

Food for Health Ireland researchers undertake the largest study of the impact of cheese on Irish heart health.

For years, cheese has been demonized as a food high in saturated fat, which could raise cholesterol levels and heart disease risks. If you have cholesterol concerns, you may be told to avoid cheese. Irish researchers in University College Dublin and Teagasc Moorepark now think that this advice needs a rethink.

A number of scientific studies published in the last few years have called into question the current negative message about cheese as an unhealthy food. This emerging science from around the world is poking holes in the argument that cheese is detrimental to health. FHI scientists are currently conducting the largest study of its kind in Ireland to understand more about cheese and its impact on our health.

This human study is being conducted in UCD. Dr Emma Feeney, FHI UCD explains ‘Cheese is high in saturated fat, however there is something special about the matrix of cheese. The fat is found with other nutrients like calcium and protein. It is believed that this matrix of nutrients with the fat can potentially have a positive effect on our health. Our study will look at this theory in more detail’.

The idea of our diet impacting our health is a hot topic these days. With obesity and its related diseases such as heart disease, on the increase, we need to look towards prevention rather than relying on cure. The results of this study will add to the body of knowledge about cheese and health proving that the combination of nutrients in cheese has many promising health benefits.

If you’re over 50 years old and have a BMI of 25 or over, This Irish cheese study needs you….Come to the FHI stand in the Innovation Arena (Unit no. 7) in the Innovation Arena at the National PloughingChampsionships to learn more about taking part.