Kildare native Sean Smith doesn’t come from a farming background but after one conversation with a vet about the laborious process of testing livestock for parasites, Smith decided to come up with a solution. Smith, along with Daniel Izquierdo, Tara McElligott, and Jose Lopez created Micron Agritech while studying product design at Technological University Dublin (TUD). The business, which all five have been working on full-time since graduating, provides parasite detection kits for livestock. “The only way to test animals for parasites is through sending a fecal sample to a lab and that takes three to five days generally for…

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