Precision Dosing Verification for Methane Reduction – Making Methane Reduction at Pasture Practical, Measurable and Credible
We are incredibly proud to announce that CH4Guard, powered by Terra NutriTECH, has won the Green Impact Award at Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena at the National Ploughing Championships 2026.
For everyone involved in developing CH4Guard, this award represents much more than recognition of a new agricultural technology. It recognises the potential for practical innovation to help farmers and the wider agricultural industry address one of the biggest environmental challenges facing livestock production: reducing methane emissions while maintaining productive, efficient and sustainable farming systems.
CH4Guard has been developed with a clear purpose — to make the delivery of methane-reducing supplements to grazing livestock accurate, automated, measurable and verifiable.
And we believe that combination is essential if methane reduction at pasture is to move from theory into everyday farming practice.
The Methane Challenge at Pasture
The development of methane-reducing feed supplements has created exciting possibilities for the livestock industry.
However, grazing systems present a very different challenge from housed livestock systems.
When animals are indoors and receiving a controlled ration, incorporating a supplement into feed can be relatively straightforward. At pasture, farmers need a practical way of delivering the required amount consistently across the herd without adding significant labour or disrupting their existing grazing system.
There is also another critical question:
How do you know the correct dose has actually been delivered?
For methane reduction strategies to create genuine environmental value, delivery needs to be more than an assumption. Farmers, processors, food companies and sustainability programmes increasingly require credible information showing what was delivered, when it was delivered and how consistently the programme was implemented.
That is the challenge CH4Guard was designed to address.
Precision Dosing for Methane Reduction
CH4Guard uses Terra NutriTECH’s experience in precision liquid supplementation and automated dosing technology to provide a practical delivery platform for methane-reducing supplements.
The system enables supplements to be delivered through livestock drinking water with a high degree of control and accuracy.
Rather than relying on manual administration, CH4Guard automates the dosing process while monitoring the factors required to maintain accurate delivery.
This approach is particularly relevant for pasture-based livestock systems, where drinking water provides an existing daily touchpoint with the animal.
But delivery alone is only part of the CH4Guard story.
CH4Guard is designed to provide the data required to verify that delivery.
Through real-time monitoring and data collection, the system creates a digital record around the dosing programme. This helps provide visibility of supplement delivery and gives farmers and other stakeholders greater confidence that the methane-reduction strategy is being implemented as intended.
It is this combination of precision delivery and verification that makes CH4Guard different.
From Methane Reduction Claims to Measurable Action
The agricultural industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress on sustainability.
For methane reduction, this means moving beyond simply having access to a methane-reducing product. The industry also needs reliable systems capable of deploying those products at farm level.
A supplement may have demonstrated methane-reduction potential, but achieving that potential in commercial agriculture depends on consistent and appropriate delivery.
CH4Guard is being developed to help bridge that gap.
By combining automated dosing technology with real-time data, the platform can create a clearer picture of how a methane-reduction programme is being implemented.
That matters at every level of the agricultural supply chain.
For the farmer, it can mean a practical system that integrates methane-reduction strategies into normal farm management.
For processors and food companies, it can provide greater visibility into sustainability initiatives taking place within their supply chains.
For researchers and supplement providers, it can offer valuable delivery data from real-world farming environments.
And for the wider industry, it can help build confidence that methane-reduction interventions are being implemented in a measurable and accountable way.
Built on Terra NutriTECH Technology
CH4Guard is powered by Terra NutriTECH, an Irish agri-tech company specialising in automated precision liquid supplementation for livestock.
Terra NutriTECH’s technology has been developed around a simple principle: supplementation should be accurate, automated and supported by data.
CH4Guard applies that experience specifically to one of agriculture’s most important sustainability challenges.
The result is a platform designed around the realities of livestock farming rather than a solution that requires the farm to completely change how it operates.
For us, that is crucial.
Technology only creates impact when it works in the real world.
Farmers need systems that are dependable, easy to manage and capable of integrating into everyday farming operations. Sustainability technologies must also make commercial sense if they are to achieve adoption at meaningful scale.
Our goal with CH4Guard is therefore not simply to demonstrate that methane reduction is possible.
It is to help make methane reduction practical at farm level and measurable throughout the supply chain.
Proud Winners of the Green Impact Award
Receiving the Green Impact Award at Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena at the National Ploughing Championships 2026 is an important milestone for CH4Guard and the Terra NutriTECH team.
The Innovation Arena has long provided a platform for Irish agricultural businesses to showcase technologies capable of addressing real challenges within farming and food production.
Being recognised for environmental impact is particularly significant because sustainability is at the heart of why CH4Guard exists.
Agriculture needs solutions that bring environmental ambition and commercial farming together.
We believe the strongest sustainability technologies will be those that farmers can realistically adopt, that integrate with existing agricultural systems and that produce data capable of demonstrating genuine progress.
CH4Guard is being built around those principles.
The award gives us further confidence as we continue developing the technology, working with industry partners and demonstrating how precision dosing can contribute to the future of methane management in grazing livestock.
Making Sustainability Credible
There is another important element to the CH4Guard vision: credibility.
As environmental targets become increasingly important throughout food production, the quality of the data supporting sustainability claims will matter enormously.
It is no longer enough to say that an intervention was available on a farm.
The industry increasingly needs to understand whether it was used correctly and consistently.
By digitally recording dosing and delivery information, CH4Guard has the potential to provide another layer of evidence around methane-reduction programmes.
That can help create a stronger connection between action on the farm and sustainability reporting further along the supply chain.
Ultimately, this is about helping turn sustainability commitments into measurable activity.
Irish Agri-Tech Innovation with Global Potential
Ireland’s pasture-based agricultural system provides an ideal environment for developing technologies capable of addressing the methane challenge in grazing livestock.
But the opportunity extends far beyond Ireland.
Grazing cattle and dairy systems operate across the world, and many face the same fundamental question: how can methane-reducing technologies be deployed practically and consistently when animals are at pasture?
CH4Guard is being developed with that wider opportunity in mind.
By combining precision dosing, automation and data, we see the potential to create a scalable platform that can support different methane-reduction technologies and different livestock production systems.
The supplement science will continue to evolve.
Our role is to help provide the infrastructure capable of delivering those solutions effectively in the field.
What Comes Next for CH4Guard?
Winning the Green Impact Award is a milestone — but it is also another step in a much bigger journey.
We are continuing to develop CH4Guard, validate its capabilities and work with partners across agriculture, research and the food industry.
Our ambition is clear:
- Make methane reduction at pasture practical.
- Make delivery precise.
- Make results measurable.
- And make sustainability claims more credible.
Agriculture has always evolved through innovation.
Today, that innovation increasingly sits at the intersection of farming, engineering, automation, data and environmental science.
CH4Guard brings those areas together to address one of livestock agriculture’s most important challenges.
We are extremely proud to see that work recognised with the 2026 Green Impact Award at Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena.
And we are even more excited about what comes next.
CH4Guard — Precision Dosing for Methane Reduction.
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