The K-Line Ag Speedbuster ® in action!
the ground prep, sowing and spraying requirements of farming operations in the Riverina, from Deniliquin to Wagga Wagga. Phil’s business proved the ideal testbed to put a new product through the sternest possible tests. “Being contractors, we do a lot of the exceptionally hard work that most people don’t want to do, or can’t do themselves,” he says. “If something’s too hard on their machinery or too much to set up, they normally get a contractor to do it.” When he needed to add a more agile secondary tillage machine in 2022 that was better suited to broadacre farming, there was no question it would be from K-Line Ag and he purchased a Speedtiller Powerflex ® to join his line-up. “We got a bucketload of work from January to March, because we had a very wet summer, and farmers had a lot of weeds,” Phil says. “With the price of chemicals going through the roof, it was cheaper to go in and knock all the weeds out so they could actually get a seed bed in for the winter crop, than to get a spray rig in, in the hope of killing everything.” Phil says his small team has “more work than we can poke a stick at” but maintains that providing good service to his clients is his first priority. “Farmers are spending a lot of money. Cotton costs $4000 to $5000 a hectare to put it in the ground and that’s a lot of money to lose if somebody comes in and doesn’t do a good job,” he says. One key to success is to supply the right equipment for his client’s needs; another is fastidious maintenance. “We spend a lot on maintenance so that when we go to a job, we know that unless we put a stake through a tyre, we’re not going to stop. You don’t make money from broken-down machinery, so we make sure everything’s 110%. If you try to cut corners with your machinery, it’s only
going to cost you more money in the long run.”
It’s a customer service philosophy he sees mirrored in his many dealings with K-Line Ag over the years as they honed the prototype Speedbuster into a production-ready model. “They would ring up, ‘how’s everything going?’. We had to make some modifications along the way, and they were very knowledgeable. They just understand the practical side of farming.”
Phill McLennan McLennan Farm Contracting
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