Ireland’s latest dairy innovation does not look like a new parlour or a shinier tractor. It looks like an app on a phone in a farmhouse kitchen in Munster — coloured paddocks on a map, numbers updating overnight, and a button that orders feed direct from the mill.
Behind that simple screen sits what is fast becoming an “AI dairy stack”: satellites scanning every field, machine-learning models predicting grass growth, a nutrition engine balancing rations, and a feed company that can see, almost in real time, what is happening on more than a thousand farms.
For an industry squeezed between volatile milk prices and tightening climate and water rules,
