Slurrysafe takes top prize at the innovation awards

A steel safety platform for use when agitating and spreading slurry from open slurry pits won the innovation award at last Saturday’s National Dairy Show in Millstreet.

Dairy farmers-inventors Alan and Colette Martin of Ballyduff Upper, Co Waterford, accepted the show’s innovation gold medal, while a silver medal award went to the Inspect 4 hydraulic turnover hoof paring crate entered by Ballynoe Agri Services.

Operating an 80-cow dairy farm, the Martins have young children and say installation of their Slurrysafe safety platform makes the farm a safer place to be for children.