Extracts from phone with Barry - Sheep farmer
Extracts from a phone call with Barry – (Sheep Grazier & Feedlot)
“From cleaning troughs every day to once a fortnight.”
💬 On time savings
- “Every bloody day. Every day.” (on how often he cleaned troughs before)
- “That’s where my time went. Four of them every day. And I hated it.”
- “I can go at a stretch a fortnight without cleaning those troughs out.”
- “It was time that I didn’t have to do the job.”
💬 On overall value
- “How’s that not a good equation? It’s a great equation.”
- “Of course it pays for itself.”
- “It’s a win-win all around. Win-win.”
💬 On water quality & animal behaviour
- “It keeps the top of the water clean.”
- “The water doesn’t stagnate.”
- “The lambs and sheep will go and drink.”
- “As soon as you clean the trough, they go straight in and drink — that tells you everything.”
- “With the pump going, it changes the top of that water and lets them drink properly.”
💬 On performance benefits
- “They would lose weight without good water — there’s no doubt about it.”
- “Better water means they drink and eat properly.”
💬 On the problem it solves
- “You haven’t got time to be there all-day cleaning troughs.”
- “The water used to go stagnant, stinking.”
💬 On the challenge selling it (important insight)
- “It’s really hard to sell this to farmers.”
- “It’s a simple thing with a huge benefit, but they just can’t quite see it.”
An SMS from Barry after the conversation
