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Hydraulic hose failures are dreaded by everyone for many reasons. Hopefully these tips can help you identify what you have, fix it properly and prevent failures in the future.
“If they positioned the dipstick under a cow’s tail on a loader, then maybe the herdsman and his helpers would check the oil.”
I asked a dairyman what his pet peeve was pertaining to mechanical things at his dairy. The above quote was his first response. He went on to say that if a person can’t handle gates and free-stalls being mangled by loader buckets without having a meltdown, then maybe they shouldn’t be in the dairy business.
A piece of equipment that is not maintained properly is probably costing its owner in loss of production.
With a compost turner, the consequences can also extend to the end product. Compost that is not turned when needed suffers, and if it continues to go unturned, that compost becomes worthless.
How do 6,000 cows beat the heat during Florida’s dog days of summer?
“We live and die by our fans and sprinklers and making sure they are operating correctly,” says Jan Henderson, who left the financial industry to become chief financial officer and the next generation working into the partnership with her father, Ron St. John, at Alliance Dairies in Trenton, Florida.
For two Wisconsin dairies, well-designed maternity pens are leading to better outcomes for both cows and calves.
In the past few years, Wayside Dairy and J&J Pickart Dairy have each made improvements to their transition cow facilities to accommodate just-in-time calving.
From Florida to California or the Riviera to Rio, from white fine sugar to black or “green,” locations around the globe claim to be the home of the “best beach in the world.”
All of their claims to fame center on one compound: sand. Yet, the diversity of sand along oceans, lakes and rivers is astounding.
Whether you are building a new barn or renovating an existing structure, every dairy producer should strive for cow comfort. During the design phase, catering the facility to the cows’ needs should be the top priority. The end result: making the biggest bang for your buck.
A variety of equipment is used in a dairy operation – from tractors and skid steers to compact track loaders – yet they all have tire or tracks that need to be maintained. With replacement tracks and tires costing upward of $1,500, ensuring your tires and tracks will run as long as possible is imperative to reducing maintenance costs and downtime.
1. Do they have a proven, step-by-step process that ensures your time and money will be well invested?
The cold hard truth about stray voltage is that it may not be the source of your problem. Odd livestock behaviors, decrease in milk production, reproduction issues – those are all symptoms typical to a stray voltage problem, but in reality, they can have many causes that may be intertwined with one another. The pie chart below shows this.
As a machinery salesperson and consultant in the dairy industry, I spend a lot of time on feedpads, from looking at how rations are mixed to suggesting what type of loader a farm should use.
In order to make qualified recommendations in the past, I have looked at mixer sizes, fuel usage, rations, loader owning and operating costs, and much more. In the end, my advice was based more on experience than on a quantifiable reason.
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