Our Story

Techgrow owners Colin and Kathy Mitchell were multi-generational broadacre cropping farmers based in Yacka, South Australia, before starting Techgrow in 2003. It is through these decades of farming experience that Colin came to learn the importance of reliable, quality machinery with strong backup support, which has remained the back-bone of Techgrow to this day.

Techgrow was conceived following an agronomy trip Colin made to the Canterbury Plain in New Zealand with a group of farmers in 2002, to study nitrogen and canopy management of cereal crops. Many of the farms visited in NZ had Bogballe spreaders, and when asked why they explained that the Bogballe proved very efficient in windy conditions because of their 4 double overlap pattern, and were superior spreaders in terms of accuracy and quality. After learning new practices of delayed nitrogen application in crops to grow less biomass and more grain, Colin saw the need to apply these principles in SA and sought the Australian distributor of the Bogballe spreaders, purchasing one for use on his own property.