Indoor feed mixing demo - Oct 1, 2017 Issue Reveal

To lower breakeven costs for his 10,500-cow dairy, dairyman Terry Ketterling built a 71,000-square-foot indoor feeding center. Watch the powerful mixing action of dairy commodities using first-in-the-U.S. techniques. Read the article when the magazine hits your mailbox around Oct 1, or on our website www.progressivedairy.com/topi...

[@kopenhagenkid]

Awesome building

[@troydairy1]

The barn paid for itself in 18m just with shrink. Good investment

[@clintondall9416]

At 4:30 someone closes the over head door on the trailer lol

[@farminstoltzfus]

That's the added *give the trailer a few bumps to clean it out* feature

[@samkom33]

nice system,,, now all i need is MONEY+A FARM+THOUSANDS OF COWS AND SO ON, hehe
and maybe a few workers hired so all i have to do is count the money. :-)

[@pearsonwientjes8531]

Seems inefficient. The mixer gets loaded twice. You haul the silage twice. Once to the edge of the field and once to the barn. Run a full time payloader to push silage. The payloader dumping into the boxes has to load pre mix and final mix

[@cotystalnaker3658]

I don't think the guy is very accurate in some of the items. If you pull up google maps and look at the dairy and the commodity barn, you can see two rather large silage piles in the rear of and if you scroll out and look around you dont see any piles at the corner of any fields. I think its interesting they pre-mix the pore-mix, I would think its to lessen the mix time for the feed mixer. There is another video where the owner of the dairy talks about the barn and all that goes on and his new calf barns

[@mtl-ss1538]

@@cotystalnaker3658 The really key principle here is that New Zealand does it better than anyone else in the world. In reality, they produce enough food to feed about 50 million people, maybe their carbon footprint needs to be thought about in the context of 50 million people and not 5 [million their population].& the grass feed system, means that cows & cattle can walk and graze in green grass fields in the spring.!!!

[@dvanstraalen]

@@mtl-ss1538 there’s a reason NZ only produces as much they do, things need to get done efficiently if you’re going to feed another seven billion... 🤷‍♀️