Max Wake owns and runs the Benleigh Brown Swiss dairy farm at Whittingham in the NSW Hunter Valley region where he milks 270 cows.
Max is very well regarded in the dairy industry — he has captured the champion cow title in the prestigious International Dairy Week awards on four separate occasions, presented the first Brown Swiss to be awarded best cow at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and his long list of triumphs at the Singleton Show may never be matched.
When we asked why, Max said, “You can’t afford not to use it.”
“The response from the feed growth is terrific, especially when combined with fertiliser,” he said
“We like that it is compatible with EasyN and we can use them in the one mix.”
When asked what percentage improvement in dry matter he was seeing with ProGibb SG, Max was quite effusive.
“It’s fairly dramatic, I haven’t actually measured it, but if I said somewhere between a 50 and 100 per cent improvement, it would be my educated guess,” he said.
Measurements by agronomists report from 20 to 60 per cent improvement as quite common.
One of the other benefits that Max reported was the ability to manage good paddock rotation throughout the winter period.
Max said he would encourage anyone considering using ProGibb this winter to go ahead with it.
“I would absolutely recommend it,” he said.
“I haven’t been using it for 15 years plus for no reason and wouldn’t keep using it if it didn’t work, as I said before, you pretty much can’t afford not to use it.”
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