About us
We farm 260 cows in southern Tasmania, Australia. The seasonal operation is based on an irrigated grazing system. The Derwent River is our water source. Our effluent system involves three ponds with the first being for solids and the remaining two for liquid. A two inch pipeline carries waste from the third pond to an irrigation pump, this is then mixed with water to be spread via lateral sprinklers over 30 hectares. There are no blockages.
Our first pond used to be emptied with a slurry tanker every fifteen months which was expensive and interfered with grazing. Not any more!
In April 2006 we were lucky enough to earn a place on a study tour to California. Here we met our future business partner Tom and as they say the rest is history. We finally imported this amazing product in December 2007 and started treating our first pond. Amazingly 24 hours later the bugs were doing their thing. (See case studies.) We now have a solids pond that sounds like a swimming pool when stones are thrown into it. We are also growing a lot of grass with less reliance on urea under the laterals.
As farmers we are really happy with this incredibly simple system. We know you will be too!
No solids is great... but it's really about the nutrients.
