20 | nzdairy Streamlining systems brings gains Kelly Deeks DAIRY PEOPLE » Jenkins Road Dairies Ltd: Manpreet Singh Boparai Having made a signi cant move towards automation last season with the installation of Protrack in its two dairy sheds, Jenkins Road Dairies is now making more changes with sustainability front-of-mind. “We are streamlining everything we can to try to bring more ef ciencies into our system,” says Jenkins Road Dairies contract milker Manpreet Singh Boparai. “This being a large herd, we always deal with The Jenkins Road Dairies team: Rupi, Hans, Courtney, Heather, Gavin, Tabitha, Manpreet. Children – Sara and Veraaj. • to page 21 Barrett Ag Ltd Ph: Kahu - 027 5183 448 E: barrettagltd@gmail.com FB: Barrett Ag FULL SILAGE AND BALEAGE SERVICE ALL CULTIVATION Including direct drill and strip tilling - precision planting EXCAVATION 20 tonne digger/grader, D85 bulldozer/roller, tip trucks and trailers Root Raking • Farm Drainage • Laser Drainage • All Track & Lane Work • Roading • Dairy Conversions• Grader Bulldozer • Precision Finishing Work •Vibrating Roller • Effluent Spreaders • 13, 16 & 20 Tonne Machines • Section Clearing Preferred supplier to Jenkins Road Dairies Ltd Your Local Animal Nutrition Specialists MOLASSES - Nationwide SILO FEEDS - South Island large numbers of staff, so having Protrack in both cowsheds is a lot easier to run and manage, and a lot easier to train our staff as well.” This season cow numbers have been cut from 1300 to 1175, but happily, total production has been maintained. “We’ve got a small run off where we used to keep half of our young stock, but going forward we are keeping all of our young stock on farm,” says Manpreet. “We’ve got much more control over our young stock and we can grow good cows out of them.” He says the young stock are used as a tool to manage the grass. With two dairy farms next door to each other and the adjoining run off block, the young stock are moved between all three farms allowing Jenkins Road Dairies to keep grass quality on all three farms. Taking a proactive approach towards ef ciency and carbon footprint reduction, Jenkins Road Dairies is now DNA testing the whole of the top herd. Two herds are run through two cow sheds, the top herd are all good BW and PW cows as well as young cows. This herd has being AI’ed with sexed semen this season, and Manpreet says his herd gures are going to shoot up pretty fast next year. “We are only mating as many cows as we need to to get our replacements calves, and the rest is going to beef semen. On top of that we are DNA testing so there won’t be any mis-matching of young stock, and we won’t be wasting any time, effort, or resources on raising bad stock. We have less cows but better cows, and better production.” Jenkins Road Dairies is owned by a syndicate PH ALEX 021 277 5308 HOME 03 225 5377 Paddock Cultivation from Ploughing to Sowing Dry Hire available Aerating Direct Drilling Ridging Mulching Dairy Lane Maintenance Tip Trailers • Vibrating Roller • Effluent Services Large Skid Steer for calf shed cleaning, loading Muck Spreaders etc 4 Muck Spreaders • 16,000 litre Slurry Tanker • Pond Stirrer • Umbilical Slurry System Sheep Conveyor Drenching, Vaccination etc • 3 way draft
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