Graham Clay
Victoria, Australia
This story was filmed in 2022 and reflects one farmer’s own experience with their Tow and Fert. Every farm is different, so please treat it as a story rather than a forecast for your place.
From organic dairy to contracting with a Multi 2800
Graham Clay farmed conventionally, then organically, on his own dairy farm in Victoria. These days he runs a contracting business, applying his own biological product, BioLink, through a Tow and Fert Multi 2800.
When the farm went organic, Graham was spreading compost and chicken manure and had trouble getting them to break down. His farm consultant gave him some biology to try on the compost heap.
We actually, physically saw the pile change. The organic matter being broken down and the process that glued it back together into little colloids of soil.
Graham Clay
That consultant is now his business partner. Together they created BioLink 4 Plants, which combines biology, humic and fulvic products, blood and bone, and fish meal. It’s Graham’s own product, and it’s what he puts through the Tow and Fert.
Getting it on was the hard part. Graham says the boom sprayers he tried kept blocking, and on steep country the booms would hit the ground and break away, so he’d have to climb out of the tractor and reset them.
He bought a Tow and Fert while he was still farming and used it with BioLink on his own organic dairy farm. Graham says:
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“We used to make a lot of silage, the real difference was that we went from having silage that went from 8 megs of energy and 12% protein to having silage that was 12 megs of energy and 19% protein. The nutrient density of the feed meant that the cow’s production hardly altered at all. I put that down to the biology system and the Tow and Fert and that’s where the Tow and Fert just stood alone.”
Those figures are from his own farm, during the move to organic, with BioLink going on through the machine. Not long after, Graham sold the farm and went contracting full time.
He likes getting nutrients onto the leaf. Graham says, “If we apply through the foliar system the uptake is a lot quicker through the plant’s vascular system, and by doing that the flow-on effects to the animals mean there is more nutritious feed for them.”
Contracting with a Multi 2800
Now off the farm, Graham runs BioLink through a Multi 2800 for his clients, along with nitrogen, potassium and whatever else each farm needs, in one pass.
It’s a very simple machine to fill, we can add our products in and our total turnaround time to load is about 7 minutes.
Graham Clay
A lot of the country he works is steep. Graham says, “I find one of the best things about it is that when we are on steeper country which we do quite often, the other sprayers we tried the booms would break out, but this machine seems to handle it all.”
