The Women & Agriculture awards, supported by FBD Insurance, highlight the dedication, hard work and innovation women in Irish farming communities show every day. Whether you’re a farmer yourself or have developed a business around your family farm, we encourage you to get involved by applying for the awards or nominating a woman you believe deserves recognition.

Category 1

Innovation-on farm awards

One winner and one runner-up prize will be awarded in this category.

We’re looking for a woman who has successfully implemented technical or managerial innovations on the family farm. This may have been done by one or more of the following:

  • Employing new technology wherever possible to improve farm family profitability.
  • Ensuring that the challenges of climate on farm are being met.
  • Seizing every opportunity to improve innovation on the farm.
  • Using excellent management practices to make farm work more efficient.
  • Improving work-life balance with the introduction of new work practices.
  • Employing scientific knowledge to make the best decisions for the farm.
  • Building up farm production with unique ideas.
  • Developing an impressive and profitable on-farm business, such as a bakery, allotments or contracting company, anything that falls under the heading of a food, tourism or agri-related business.

    • Category 2

    Innovation in agriculture and food

    One winner and one runner-up prize will be awarded in this category.

    The winner of this award will be a woman who has looked at the agriculture and food sector and seen a novel idea or initiative or campaign come alive. She may have done this by one or more of the following:

  • Identifying a viable market opportunity and making a success of it.

  • Acting as an employee/volunteer in an existing organisation to bring about change in the sector.
  • Embracing innovation to add real value to the agriculture sector in Ireland.
  • Working with the existing challenges of climate change, farm safety, unconscious bias and changing food habits of Ireland’s population.
  • Working with existing farm organisations to ensure that development and initiatives for farm families are ongoing and relevant.
  • Being a driver of change in the agriculture sector in Ireland through a farm or an agribusiness.
  • Increasing family income by utilising unique elements of agriculture as well as her own skills.
  • Recognising the need for change in the industry and bringing the role of women in agriculture to the fore.

    • Download the Innovation on Farm application form HERE.

    Download the Innovation in agriculture and food application form HERE.

    Send your entries to: womenandag@farmersjournal.ie

    Closing date for entries is 12pm on Friday 13 March 2020.