National Ploughing Championships
Keenan will bring its MechFiber 345SP self-propelled diet feeder to this year's National Ploughing Championships.
Machinery
Vertical feeders will not provide a MechFiber-standard feed mix. But it's as close as can be achieved with a vertical auger, says Keenan.
Keenan showed its new self-propelled paddle-type diet feeder. The MechFibre 345SP had its first official outing at the SIMA show in Paris.
Keenan, part of the Alltech empire, unveiled one of its brand new tub feeders at last week’s FTMTA Farm Machinery Show.
Agri-Business
Alltech has acquired Keenan, the diet-feeder maker based in Borris, Co. Carlow, following successful talks between the two companies.
Alltech has confirmed that it is in talks with Keenan, after it was announced that receivers had been appointed to the Carlow-based company.
Joint receivers have been appointed to the Borris-based Keenan System after reports of the company being in financial difficulty surfaced within the industry.
Keenan is now working with IT giant Intel which, it says, will improve data sharing and enhance nutritional analysis.
Dairy
Efficiency in a broad sense will be a vital force for farmers to deal with price volatility according to Keenan Chairman Director Gerald Keenan.
At its launch this week in Kilkenny Keenan highlighted that feed efficiency is at the heart of its new InTouch AgriTech technology.
Keenan Systems has confirmed that it has signed a franchise agreement which will see the Carlow-manufactured diet feeders enter the Chinese market.
Beef
What goes on in the ruminant is key to profitable beef and dairy production, according to Gerard Keenan.
Keenan has launched what it says its customers are calling a 'guardian angel' for beef farmers, in the form of its InTouch.
Keenan has appointed a new area manager for the Cork region.
Host of the Glastonbury Festival Michael Eavis from Somerset was the winner of this year’s NMR/RABDF Gold Cup announced last week at the Livestock Show 2014 held at the NEC in Birmingham.
Keenan System is reporting huge interest in its machines at the moment particularly from the dairy sector with the abolition of quota just around the corner.
Richard Keenan & Co. Ltd recently launched their inTouch system for Northern Ireland at a function in Hillsborough.
Keenan, one of Ireland's leading farming solutions company, has hailed the recent Japanese by Taoiseach, Enda Kenny along with Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney a success.
The new Keenan MF380 was developed to fill the gap between the current MF360 and MF400 models.
Arable
Richard Keenan & Co will export hi-tech feeding machinery to the Shanghai-based Yan, Hua, in a deal worth E15m following four years of work in the Far East.
