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Sponsor pro le - Hydrosmart

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The Hydrosmart team - Jai, Paul and Zac Pearce.
Boosting water

quality and

nutritional uptake

YDROSMART is now “Increased dissolved
in its third decade oxygen due to
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manufacturing and breaking impact makes
supplying and consulting water more palatable.
to farmers and producers “In January 2020, a
across the country with lamb feedlot in NSW tted
its patented unique water Hydrosmart onto its salty
technology. bore water supply and
Managing director Paul they reported a 15 per cent
Pearce has two sons increase in weight gain.”
Zac and Jai who are now The business is in the
working in the company. process of developing its
“They can see that new HydroMax product,
smart sustainable water and the team is working
treatment is the way of in with a producer to
the future and they are measure beef weight
excited about the products gains this summer based
Hydrosmart makes on numerous good client
available to its customer results over the years.
base around Australia,” “We are running a trial
Mr Pearce said. on a cattle feedlot in SA
“The appliance makes which has up to 16,000
head and a section is
hard water problems
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being supplied treated
disappear by electronic
frequencies and pulses.
determine weight gains

and health bene ts over
“With livestock, the
more bioavailable
a 14-week period this
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sponsor to Beef Week.
availability for bone and
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muscle strength.” with so many livestock
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impact in the microbiome hard water issues, both
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Mr Pearce said. agriculture.”
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