FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT

Milk quality matters beyond quality premiums. It can help secure your milk market and bring more money back to your dairy by reducing mastitis treatment costs and labour, along with milk withholding times.

Advanced milking technology provides more data points than many dairies are able to use in their day-to-day routines and management decisions.

A clean, fresh water supply is one of the most important things you can provide for your herd. And even though it may be a very low-cost input item, it should be viewed as one of the most critical. There are several components to consider when reviewing your water supply, but here are some of the most important to watch:

Compact track loaders and skid-steer loaders, along with versatile attachments, can accomplish a wide variety of tasks in a fraction of the time of manual processes. And no matter what your focus is on, today’s advanced machines are durable, reliable and comfortable.

As someone who has seen more than a few ‘that’ll do’ repairs, I think spending a bit of time understanding the nuts and bolts of nuts and bolts is a good idea.

Hot, hot-hot and red hot – there are some interesting trends today in used farm equipment, Greg Peterson (aka Machinery Pete) told farmers at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky.