The inaugural South-west Victorian Dairy Innovation Challenge winner, a Water Rat trough sensor that sends an alert when water levels get too low, has gone on to win a national award.
Farmo, an agtech company founded by former Victorian Western District farmer Nick Seymour five years ago, has won gold for its Water Rat at the 2022 Australian Good Design Awards. The portable floating sensor, which was launched earlier this year, was the Good Design gold winner in the product design category at Australia’s peak international design awards held in Sydney last month. The prestigious award was in recognition for outstanding design and innovation.
The Water Rat was previously named as the overall winner of DemoDAIRY Foundation’s Dairy Innovation Challenge and it also won the local sustainability-environmental award.
The Challenge was an initiative of DDF in partnership with Great South Coast Food and Fibre and Elders.
Nick Seymour pictured holding the Water Rat.