7&~Uncattar Farming. Saturrlay, March 13, 1976
Feeding time at "Arkavalley Farm" fence-line feed strips are featured at
is a matter of driving down the feed the research facility which is located
alleys or along fence tines with seif* on 802 acres of comparatively un
unioading forage boxes which mix a productive land in central Arkansas,
complete ration. Feed bunks and
Once they’ve been loaded with automatically incorporated into the
sorghum silage and brewers grains, feed. Electronic scales on the box let
trucks move to the grain bins where the operator know when filling is
the proper ration is added and complete.
managers found out, could
provide the necessary feed
so that attention at
“Arkavalley” could be
focused on dairy
[Continued from Page 77] bunker silos, the largest of management entirely,
practicality of the operation which is 60 feet wide, 300 feet rather than inclusive with
is being kept in mind. long, and has a capacity of 10 field work. Those contract
Sorghum silage, which to 12-thousand tons. Most of growers manage a total of
was described as “poor the crop is grown outside of approximately 1900 acres of
forage” by two of the the farm’s own tillable 400 sorghum fields —or roughly
managers, is stored in three acres. Contract growers, one acr e per cow.
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Sorghum silage U the bulk
of the ration, and U, in (act,
tha only forage being off trad
at the preaent Umt. The top
producing com receive a
ration containing about 61.7
per cent aorghurn etlage, 11.1
per cent brewer* grain*, and
37.2 per cent of Purina'*
Golden Milk Chow Special
(II per cent protein). During
early years the herd wa* fed
different amount*, and low
fat test* were often en
countered during the
summer. A change in
rations, and the addition of
“buffer" compounds has
allowed "Arkavelley" to
maintain fat teats of 3.5 per
cent or better even when
best and humidity reach
summertime highs.
Loaded into self-unloading
mix wagons equipped with
scales, all but small amounts
of a dairy feed are fed by
way of these vehicles. They
unload into either fence-line
or conventional bunk
feeder*. One man feeds all of
the milking com starting
at 6 ajn. and finishing at 3
p jn. Top milking strings are
fed six times per day, others
four times. A small amount
of a pelleted feed is used in
the parlor to give com an
extra incentive to come in.
Molasses blocks had been
tried prior to that with little
success, the management
reported.
In order to give its em
ployees incentive,
“Arkavalley Farm” has five
bonus schedules based on
production, extra cows
milked, mastitis reductions,
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bonuaes la somewhere proveroent starting right at
between H9O and $9OO per the time calves are bom. A
month, a farm manager calf mortality rate of 10 per
said. Time off is rotational cent in a herd of this size irj
with the average work week considered to be “workable”
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though no one ever really the farm. That rate has been
works a half day. achieved.
The heifer replacement The calf bam is normally
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