Perfect milker
Prepared on the basis of a presentation by representatives of «DeLaval» Edward Ziegert at the opening of a dairy complex PAL «Ukraine» (HC «Eridon») in the village Pochuyky Popilnyansky district, Zhytomyr region.
July 7, 2015 at 7 am for the first time in Zhytomyr udder of the cows was touched by robot, but not milkmaids. It took place at built from scratch dairy farm PAL «Ukraine». It is equipped with 8 voluntary milking stations, which will serve 500 cows.
The focus is on the development
The history of dairy production in JV "Promin" is very typical for Ukraine. We started in 2004 from the remnants of the former Soviet luxury, it was only 50 cows that gave two liters of milk per day.
III Ukrainian Milk Day
This year it was celebrated on August 16 in Kiev. Thanks to the organizers of the event - Association of Dairy Producers (ADP) and social project "I love milk" – “Singing field" park for one day turned into a real dairy country. More than 25 thousand people from Kiev and visitors came to the festival to support good tradition.
Feeding and digestion of cattle
Yuri Sivov, Head of Consulting centre of ADP
Man to meet his constantly growing both quantitatively and qualitatively demand for animal products, moved from hunting to grazing cattle, and then - to industrial livestock. We grow and then eat fish, poultry, rodents, reptiles, pigs, cows and more.
Milk from forage-2015: to feed the same — to get more
Vladimir Mirnenko, LLC «Pottinger Ukraine»
Cow, which consumes 20 kg of dry matter of feed, can produce 24 kg of milk per day and can 36 kg. The same 20 kg of DM, but they are similar only at first glance. We have already clearly realized, that in crop growing fertilizers are very different in content and solubility of the active ingredient.
Feed production: new technical solutions and experience
On May 20-23 business tour for Ukrainian farmers to Poland and Belarus was held. It was organized by «KUHN-Ukraine».
Economy of milk production once again on the agenda
The crisis is forcing milk producers carefully analyzе each line item and look for that crack, through which profit «runs». About what kind of methodology Austrian farmers use, says an employee of Research Institute Raumberg Gumpenshtayn Johann Häusler.
Revival of organic: the economy of application
Taras Degodyuk, a consultant on the use of organic fertilizers;
Sergei Bobyk, Marketing Manager, LLC «AG-BAG-Ukraina»
The fact that cattle manure is a fertilizer that is able to improve the efficiency of agricultural enterprises, and together with other organic matter in the future to make a serious competition to chemical fertilizers — difficult to argue.
Comfortable environment for maximum productivity
Valery Tiseyko, director of «Agroklimat Ukraine»
For any enterprise the main task is to increase efficiency and productivity. Farms, which milk 20 kg of milk per cow per day, tend to have 24 kg, and those that have already reached this limit, dream of 30 kg. One of the factors affecting the productivity of livestock is a microclimate.
Highlighting the key points: harvesters, trailers or round balers
According to the company «Klaas Ukraine»
To reduce the cost of production of roughage experts advise farmers to grow grass (cereal or legumes) as close as possible to the place of silage pit. And what to do when the fields under fodder crops for various reasons, are at a distance of 10 or 20 kilometers? However, under these conditions, it is possible to prepare silage with minimal cost.
