Unified commitment and mutual support between family members have proved to create a vast number of successful family businesses. Asphalia is on its way to become one of these success stories. Asphalia is the agent for Gallagher products, which is a world famous New-Zealand manufacturer of scales and electric fencing.

“Asphalia is three years old and still small, but we are building clientele and we are getting there. This is our second year at Agritech, and the interest shown by visitors to the Expo is very promising,” Mark Baillie, Director, says.

Grazing management in a kit

“Our strip grazing kit for cattle, sheep and goats comes with a solar energiser and is also a complete plug and play unit. It is 500 metres long and allows a farmer to utilise an area of approximately 1,5 ha at a time,” Mark says.

All their energisers and wiring are UV treated and are guaranteed for one and two years respectively. They are also able to service any Gallagher equipment a farmer bought from previous agents. Asphalia is based in Lusaka and they are currently negotiating with outlets to expand their footprint.

Smart scales

The Gallagher scale kit consists of load cells and indicators. There are 3 different lengths of load cells offered by Asphalia depending on the application, the 600 mm, 1 000 mm and the heavy duty beams which are 1 200 mm long. The functions on the different indicator models vary from basic up to the TSI, which is a complete management system.

“You can integrate the TSI with your herd management software programme and even access it on your smart device. It allows you to record data like the birth weight and slaughter weight of the calf as well as the weight of the sire and dam. Alarms can be programmed to indicate any discrepancies in the animal’s weight compared to the norm. It can also be linked to crush gates to sort the animals,” Mark says.

Asphalia’s Gallagher equipment will make your work easier and increase efficiency. Contact Roslyn on +26 (0) 96-346-9217, +26 (0) 96-797-2355 or send an e-mail to info@asphalia.co.zm or roz@asphalia.co.zm. Also visit the website at www.gallagher.com.

Feature photo: Tess Baillie, Erin de Wet, Mathews Mwale, Troy de Wet, Roslyn Baillie and Bronwyn de Wet are members of the Asphalia team, ready to serve farmers to make their job easier.