True North Technologies
Dairy cows grazing, photographed at grass level in a paddock of heavy cover
Innovation in Agriculture

Innovation driven by farmers' needs.

True North works with the leaders in agriculture in Ireland and Europe to design and develop innovative hardware and software solutions to meet your needs as a farmer or advisor.

In the field

Our products on farms

Counted across every farm on GrasslandTools, recounted every hour.

farms walked in the last 12 months
1,795
hectares of grazing ground
65,722
animals weighed
19,597
gates in the field
371
About us

True North Technologies — Innovation in Agriculture

True North Technologies is based in Shannon, Co. Clare. Work on our first product, Grasshopper, began in 2012, and it went on sale in 2015. Since then the company has expanded its product base with ground-breaking technologies that focus on delivering geo-tagged decision support and other solutions to the agricultural sector.

Our in-house skills include comprehensive software development capabilities and allow us to offer the latest in app design, for Android and iOS, and online decision support tools.

Founded
2012
Based in
Shannon, Co. Clare
First Grasshopper
2015
Validated with
Moorepark
Designed and made in
Ireland

Recognised by Enterprise Ireland as an entrepreneurial company leading innovation in the agricultural technology sector.

Our approach

To deliver innovative products that help to reduce paperwork on the farm.

Our values

To design and deliver reliable, innovative products and services that help transform the farm work experience.

Our support

Our sales and office support team offers individual attention to resolve questions from our customers.

Our resources

Our in-house team covers software development, hardware engineering and production disciplines.

Industry partners

We have actively engaged with agencies and universities around Europe

The Grasshopper algorithm was developed and validated over a three-year period by True North Technologies and the research team at the Moorepark Grassland Research Centre in Ireland.

  • Agroscope
  • University of Alberta
  • Dairygold
  • INRA
  • Institut de l'Élevage
  • Irish Grassland Association
  • Laimburg Research Centre
  • Università di Padova
  • PastureBase Ireland
  • SEGES
  • Teagasc
  • Tirlán
  • Wageningen University & Research
Testimonials

What our clients think

“At 56 years old and poor with technology generally, I find the Grasshopper very easy to use, and the confidence it's given me to make grass management decisions at a way earlier point than I used to. I would highly recommend to anyone looking to improve decision making around grass.”
Andrew Flavin Dairy Farmer, Co. Kerry
“We've been using the system religiously for 4 years now and I would be completely lost now without it. I often wonder how I managed before I got it and started grass measuring.”
Kieran Walsh Dairy Farmer, Co. Wexford
“The Grasshopper gives me the ability to be on top of the grazing management throughout the year. As we are a dry farm and burn up quickly, I find the Grasshopper system super at I seeing deficit coming 2 weeks ahead of what we normally would.”
Alan Grace Dairy Farmer, Co. Westmeath
“Grasshopper gives me great utilization of grass, great confidence in the grazing rotation with increased protein percentages in cows going into proper cover all the time.”
Ger Walsh Dairy Farmer, Co. Limerick
“We were using cut and weigh years ago to measure grass but found it way to slow, so ended up giving it up until we came across the Grasshopper at the ploughing match in 2018. It's part of the weekly routine every week now. The speed and ability for anyone of the family to go out and measure grass is a huge benefit to us as labour is very scarce during the weekdays. It's a job my wife and daughter love to do at the weekends.”
John Keane Dairy Farmer, Co. Carlow
“GrasslandTools is a great help to any farmer, giving you your average farm cover per cow instantly. The farm map being colour coded gives you a good clear overall look at your farm.”
Frank Crinion Dairy Farmer, Co. Meath
“A real hands-free device with no paper needed. Hardest part was reading the dirty tag numbers so I look forward to the EID addition. It makes the weighing process very easy and the transfer of weighing data directly onto an Excel sheet even easier.”
Timmy Lane Beef Farmer, Co. Cork
“We retrofitted the WeighRite system on our mobile cattle crush and since then we have shared the data with our nutritionist, and it has helped no end on formulating TMR mixes to maximise ADG.”
Patrick Kelly Beef Farmer, Co. Limerick
“WeighRite gives us all information at hand. It's user-friendly, efficient and helps us monitor livestock performance continuously. Even my dad likes the ease of use.”
David Kennedy Dairy Farmer, Co. Clare
Support

Reducing the paperwork on the farm

Our sales and office support team offers individual attention to resolve questions from our customers. Guides, answers and parts are below — or ring the office in Shannon.

Contact

Questions? Ask us

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Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:00 Irish time (IST)

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Closed on Irish bank holidays.

Address
True North Technologies
Unit 4, Kilsheelan House
Shannon, Co. Clare, V14 PP66
Ireland
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