Boss Engineering at Inverell expands agricultural manufacturing

The agricultural engineering and manufacturing company, based in Inverell NSW, has experienced impressive growth in a time where Australian manufacturing has all but moved off shore. 

Boss Engineering sales manager Dan Ryan believes this is due to grassroots’ support. 

“We are bucking the trend, our growers back us and are happy there is a local manufacturing company succeeding,” Mr Ryan said. 

Coonamble grower Tony Single, “Narratigah”, is one of their clients.  

Mr Single purchased an 18 metre bridge frame with TX80 parallelograms on 333 millimetre spacings in 2013.  

With the option of single disc shanks, tynes and sweeps for cultivation, he said the fact the machine is purpose built is what makes the difference. 

“The frame we ordered was tailor made to accommodate all the specifications and options that we wanted in a planter,” Mr Single said. 

“It’s an all-round well built, durable machine, with the flexibility of being three in one.” 

On the farm, the design of the machine allowed them to have more flexibility to get planting right.  

“It will do anything from precise placement of small seeds using single disc shanks to extreme moisture seeking with chickpeas and faba beans using tynes as the profile dries out,” he said. 

“It also has the option of a full cut cultivation with sweeps.”

Boss Engineering has grown from a modest six employees in 2007 to one of Inverell’s largest employers, with more than 100 staff.  

With two new sheds under construction for completion by the end of this year, they will have more than 2.5 hectares under roof, manufacturing their own branded line of broadacre planters, row crop machinery, air-seeders, Boss Built ute trays and spare parts. 

With all build slots full for the 2018 winter plant, Mr Ryan said the company was happy to move into a steadier geographic growth.  

“We have moved from our back door progressively north, south and west, we want to naturally evolve into other states,” he said. 

With established sales in Victoria and one machine already in Western Australia, Mr Ryan said this would give them insight into the new soil types and conditions the potential client base will face so that they could adapt accordingly. 

Boss, however, understood the need for doing things well at home. 

“If we can’t sell it in our backyard there isn’t a lot of point,” he said. 

“You want products that will work for the clients near you and integrate their feedback. We learn from our growers.”