Chris' appointment as Technical Manager in September of 2004 followed an 18 year involvement with broad acre crop and pasture input development and evaluation. He worked within the Pastures Group at the WA Department of Agriculture and The Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) for 14 years collectively where his technical role was involved with the evaluation of new annual and perennial pasture varieties. In March 2000 Chris took up a position with rural merchandise company IAMA, later to become Landmark AWB, where he oversaw their broad acre product testing program for the WA grain belt.

Within ALOSCA Technologies Chris' is principally involved with the bacterial culturing and granulation of the product range as well as laboratory and field evaluation of new and existing product lines. Chris sees ALOSCA Technologies' commitment to product consistency and quality assurance along with sound product information as the key drivers to the success of the ALOSCA product range.

Chris is a good point of contact if you have any product usage or application queries.

Robyn’s appointment as office manager in 2008 allowed Alosca to provide a new focus on customer satisfaction.  Robyn’s work experience has a clear focus in the areas of administration and more importantly customer service.  This experience ranges from many years in the banking sector culminating in a number of roles within the agricultural sector as customer service supervisor through to office Manager. Experience in MYOB and accounting activities allows Robyn to provide exceptional administrative support.

Robyn prides herself on ensuring customers are 100% satisfied on every occasion.

Steve Carr has been involved in agricultural research, development and extension for over 20 years, and has an enviable record of applied and practical achievement from his work. He began his career with the Department of Agriculture researching aspects of soil acidity and plant nutrition. During his PhD studies, Steve developed a soil test to identify subsoil Al toxicity on the naturally acidic sand plain soils in the eastern wheat belt.

Steve then worked with CLIMA in pasture and forage legume breeding and selection, and during this period made significant contribution to the new directions in Australian pasture improvement. Steve played a key role in the release of several pasture legume cultivars including Cadiz French serradella, Casbah biserrula (a world first for this species), Caprera crimson clover and Cefalu arrowleaf clover. These cultivars are now dominating many new pasture sowings throughout Australia.

With a comprehensive knowledge of farm systems and a capacity to contribute new developments, Steve and colleague Angelo Loi developed the ALOSCA dry clay based granule system. Their research focus on introducing new legumes into farming systems highlighted the value a granular inoculant system would have in Australian farming. Maximising nitrogen input from legumes is critical for sustainable farming, and emerging changes to farming practice (eg dry sowing of crop and pasture legumes) are severely limited by the old peat based inoculation approach.