Like every other dairy farmer, Carl and Jim
Hostetter, RD 2, Annville, must sometimes
feed first cutting alfalfa to their 82 milking
cows. When they must, the Hostetlers use
the tough-built, red bedding chopper from US
Farm Systems of Pennsylvania. This barn
chopper cuts the hay stems into short
lengths. And the cows appreciate the
chopper’s work. The high producing cows eat
more hay. Give more milk. Leave less wasted
hay in the manger.
“We used the bedding chopper to chop
course hay to mix with our silage," Jim said.
"And the cows increased production. With
the short stems the cows ate more hay. And
drank more water. Before we used the
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bedding chopper to cut the course hay, we
had to remove and throw away at least four
bales of hay each day."
Of course, the Hostetlers use the red
bedding chopper to chop bedding every day
too. "We keep the cows noticeably cleaner,"
Jim said. “And we save labor. I can bed 82
cows in 20 minutes. Before we had the
chopper, it took three men to shake out the
straw by hand."
The Hostetters find the gasoline engine on
the red bedding chopper uses only V/z
gallons of fuel in seven days of bedding 82
cows each day. For the fun of using figures,
Jim says that’s about 383 stalls per gallon.
‘‘We were looking for a bedding chopper for
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a long time,” the young dairyman said. “But
we just didn’t find one that completely
satisfied us until dad saw the red, bedding
chopper at the All American Dairy Show in
Harrisburg last fall. That’s all it took. We liked
the many different cut lengths we could get
on the ‘red one’. And since we have it, we
certainly wouldn’t want to go back to the old
way of bedding cows.”
For more information on how you can use
the tough-built, red bedding chopper on your
farm, Write or call:
U S Farm Systems of Pennsylvania
4070 Blue Ball Road
Nottingham, PA 19362
Phone: (301) 398-2948
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