Armidale’s own Optiweigh has been recognised on the world stage, taking out the title of “Herd Management Solution of the Year” at the 2025 AgTech Breakthrough Awards .
The annual awards program, run by AgTech Breakthrough, highlights the most innovative agricultural and food technology companies from around the globe. This year’s competition reviewed thousands of nominations across categories including farm management, robotics, analytics, and food technology.
Optiweigh, founded and developed in Armidale, provides an automated in-paddock livestock weighing system that enables producers to monitor livestock performance without the need for traditional yard weigh-ins. The portable solution can be set up in minutes and delivers liveweight data straight to producers’ devices.
Beyond livestock weighing, Optiweigh has also partnered with Agscent to add methane emissions monitoring to its platform. It is the first product in the world able to measure methane emissions while animals are being weighed, with the data delivered remotely and automatically in real time.
Source: Lia Edwards, New England Times, 25/08/2025