The Institution of Agricultural Engineers presented their awards at this week's conference.

IVEL AWARD:   Awarded to Garford Farm Machinery for the Garford Robocrop Spot Sprayer judged to be the best new product at LAMMA 2014 that demonstrated the most positive contribution the environment. Presented to Michael Garford by Mark Kibblewhite.

DOUGLAS BOMFORD PAPER AWARD: Awarded to Dr Abdul Mounem Mouazen MIAgrE for his paper Non-biased prediction of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen with vis-NIR spectroscopy, as affected by soil moisture content and texture, presented by John Fox.

MICHAEL DWYER MEMORIAL PRIZE: 2014 WINNER was Austin Jarrett, managing director of Turfmech Machinery Ltd, manufacturers of the Allett brand of high quality and commercial mowers

BRANCH MERITORIOUS AWARD: Awarded to John Gough MIAgrE of the Wrekin Branch who worked for a farm machinery distributor before moving into education sitting on the NVQ development committee.

AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE LAND BASED INDUSTRIES SECTOR:  2014 WINNER was Richard Danby FIAgrE, who has recently retired from RDS Technology after 40 years, and managing director since 1991. The company are specialists in electronic monitoring devices for yield monitoring and mapping.

AWARDS OF MERIT: Presented to Alan Plom MIAgrE for 2014 for his contribution to farm safety, and to Dr Bill Day FIAgrE Editor in Chief of Bio-Systems Engineering who was presented with the 2013 Award

Other Awards were presented at LAMMA last January to Daniel George of Coleg Sir Gar (Student Project Award), and to Jamie Venables of Harper Adams University who won the IAgrE Safety Award.