Category: Exhibitor News

Waterford based Pip & Pear Chilled Baby Food is sprouting up all over Ireland in a supermarket near you

Pip & Pear Chilled Baby Food is a revolutionary new baby food range which was conceived in the kitchen of Waterford mum and restauranteur Irene Queally. Using Irene’s home cooked recipes and containing up to 2 of your baby’s 5 a day fruit and veg portions, Pip & Pear looks and tastes like real food because that’s just what it is.

Pip and Pear is stocked in over 110 SuperValu stores nationwide and is also available in Aldi THIS WEEK (17^th Sept) as part of their baby and toddler event! Pip and Pear first launched with Aldi in May in conjunction with their baby and toddler promotion. The demand for the new baby food range was so great that Aldi wanted Pip and Pear back on their shelves again. Aldi’s enthusiasm for Irish producers, sourcing over 50% of their products from Irish suppliers and their commitment to outstanding quality, made it a perfect fit for the launch of Pip & Pear Chilled Baby Food.

Parents can now buy nutritious baby food that looks and tastes great, without the worry of having to compromise on flavour and nutritional value. Pip & Pear is cooked exactly the same way as you would at home, we just use a bigger pot, and it doesn’t need the intensive cooking methods of long shelf life pouches and jars.

Like every busy parent, Irene occasionally needed a convenient baby food but couldn’t find anything in stores that came close to home cooking, and so Pip & Pear was born. She took the brave step of putting it on the menu at “No.9 Barronstrand St.” and the response was amazing; within weeks people were driving from all over the south east to stock up.

Last year, Pip & Pear swept the boards winning Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards and has been shortlisted again for the awards ceremony early next month.

Pip and Pear Chilled Baby Food offers parents “the next best thing to homemade with all of the goodness and none of the guilt”. Irene has sourced top quality ingredients including Organic Fruit and Vegetables, Organic Gluten Free Baby Pasta, Bord Bia Approved Irish Beef, Lamb and Chicken and Bord Iascaigh Mhara approved Fish.

Pip & Pear Chilled Baby Food offers the best nutritional options in a convenient little pot and makes it easier for babies to transition to a broad range of solid foods. Look out for us in the dairy fridge next to the yoghurt.

Invitation
Come join us at our stand at the National Ploughing Championships and meet adults who recently returned to education.
Adults who returned to education encourage others to ‘give it a go’ at the National Ploughing Championships

The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) would like to invite you to join us at our stand at the National Ploughing Championships and meet students who recently returned to education. They include Olive Phelan, Tony Moloney, Michael Power, Kevin O’Duffy, Noel Phelan and Liz Corkish.

Before the next election, they would especially like to tell you about the social and economic benefits of helping people with low or no qualifications access education.
Why is this important?

In the last OECD survey, it was estimated that one in six Irish adults has problems with even the simplest literacy task such as reading instructions on a bottle of aspirin. One in four people find it difficult to do simple maths.

As low skilled jobs become less available, people without a qualification are at the greatest risk of unemployment and already form the greatest group who are unemployed. Individuals who do not have a basic education also have poorer health and in general lower life expectancy and life chances.

The aim of our awareness work is to help people with poor literacy and numeracy skills access adult education, to create a more inclusive society.

You can find us in:
The Duhallow Tent (Education & Business)
Block 1
Row 30
Stand 583
Unit 21 and 22

National Adult Literacy Awareness Week will also be promoted nationwide from Monday 21 to Friday 25 of September. The aim of the week is to raise awareness about the literacy issue in Ireland and to promote the free courses available to people who want to improve their reading, writing and maths skills.

For queries contact:
Clare McNally, National Adult Literacy Agency
087 6486292 or 01 4127909

DPT Ireland have their national launch of new product Diesel Power Tuning at National Ploughing Championship from the 22^nd – 24^th September.

This product is the brain child of Wim Essing Formula 1 standard Dutch automotive engineer who has worked at the highest level in world motorsport. The founding partner Twan will be at the Ploughing Championship this year and will be available for interviews.  Also available will be Martin Dowd and Graham and David Larkin who are the UK and Irish distributers of DPT

DPT is a high-powered tuning box for the agricultural sector; it will allow the end user toenhance the performance of their existing tractor without the need for large mechanical bills and tractor down time. The tractor owner will be able to customise the tractors performance according to the farms ever changing needs;  they will be able to choose between 3 simple settings.

• Increased engine performance,
• Fuel savings or engine performance
• and fuel savings of up to 7 litres per hour when in the Eco mode

DPT will also help the end user when purchasing a new machine as they will be able to purchase the engine power within their budget knowing this can be increased by up to 20% by simply fitting the DPT tuning box.

DPT Ireland are also the Irish Distributor of Terraclean Ireland which has been featured on Discovery Channels Wheelers dealers and is proving a huge success in the Irish Market.  Business owner Cathy Kelly “is thrilled to be awarded DPT distribution and can’t wait to introduce it to the Irish market at Europe’s largest agricultural event”.

In another first from Lely, visitors to this year’s Ploughing will not only have the Live milking exhibition to enjoy but also a live demonstration of how Lely produce and assemble their unique mower bed by replicating a mini version of their Splendimo mower production cell from their production facility in the Netherland’s.

Save a litre of fuel per hectare

In what is sure to be a huge attraction at this year’s event farmers and contractors will have the opportunity of experiencing at first-hand how a Lely Splendimo modular mower bed is assembled. This will help the spectator understand why Lely mowers have the lowest HP requirement and fuel consumption rates in today’s market place. It has been well proven worldwide and in independent trials that a Lely Splendimo mower requires 20% less HP than other brands leading to a fuel saving of a least a litre of diesel per hectare mown.

Explaining the concept Joe Roche from Lely said that it was during our Irish dealer trip to the Lely factory in the Netherlands last December that the idea came about. Our new dealers were really impressed with the modular cutterbar production cell and one of them suggested that we should consider doing it at the Ploughing. I didn’t take it seriously at the time but a seed was sown and this spring we gave it some more consideration. Our experience with the live milking stand over the past 2 years gave us the confidence to design and plan the event and what better way is there to show it to farmers than to replicate a mini version of the Splendimo production line in Maassluis in the Netherlands at this year’s Ploughing.

A unique modular cutterbar

He went on to explain that Lely design and manufacture their own unique modular cutter bar which is fitted to all Splendimo disc mowers. This Lely invention is made up of universal mowing units, which are directly driven by a flexible hexagonal shaft. Consequently, this cutter bar contains far fewer gears than any other cutter bar, which results in outstanding output. It also ensures that in the event of damage to the bed from contact with a foreign object it can be quickly and easily repaired. There is no need to take the whole bed apart as each disc unit can be removed individually, repaired and quickly reinstalled saving time and ensuring low maintenance costs. This will be demonstrated on site by 2 Lely employees from our production line in the Netherlands.

Free use of a Splendimo 280M 9ft mounted mower

We are also part of the free farming for a year competition in association with our media partner agriland. After seeing our Splendimo production cell and how our mowers are assembled one lucky farmer will win the free use of a high spec 9ft Lely 280 M Splendimo mower for the 2016 grassland season. People can enter on line at agriland.ie or on our stand at the show.

About the Lely Group

Lely, founded in 1948, directs all its efforts towards creating a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in farming for its customers. Lely is the only company worldwide to supply the agricultural sector with a complete portfolio of products and services ranging from forage harvesting to automated feeding systems, barn cleaners and milking robots. Lely is also working on business concepts to ensure energy-neutral operations in the dairy sector. For many years Lely has been leading in automated milking systems. The company has a strong position in forage harvesting products, with over 65 years of acquired knowledge of the agricultural cycle. The Lely Group is active in more than 60 countries and employs around 2,000 people.