Houden’s Dairy
AFSystems designs & installs WA’s first on-farm automated Skiold Disc Mill plant at Houden’s dairy farm. When it came time to upgrade from commercial pellet feed to a low-maintenance, automated feed stock mill system, WA dairy farm, Mal Houden, relied on AFSystems for seamless system installation and commissioning. Within a day, Houden’s farm started self-producing milled grain and no longer required commercial feed of variable quality.
The Client
The Problem
Situated in the lower south-west of Western Australia, Houden Dairy Farm had limited access to reliable, cost-effective suppliers of high-quality manufactured stock feed from Perth and other regional locations. Houden’s setup involved buying pelletised feed from non-local suppliers and paying costly transportation fees, then manually pumped it in silos to feed the farm’s dairy stud.
While the pelletised feed system had served Houden dairy well in the past, they knew it was time to upgrade and modernise their existing operations when a major feed conveyor started to break down regularly and uniFARM came to the rescue. Installing a new feed and mill system can seem like a daunting proposition – fortunately, that’s where a turnkey solution provider like uniFARM that excels at this type of installation.
The Solution
Houden’s new feedstock mill system provides a variety of feed options for the whole business, not just dairy feed but, calf and heifer feed. The farm now enjoys a trouble-free grain milling, moving and mixing system that allows them to mill grain around the business operation with great access to raw materials – cereals, lupins and canola.
Annual servicing of the disc mill system takes less than one day and can be completed in between milking with ease to change disk every 4 – 6 months.
The Outcome
The major benefit of the new system is the efficiency that makes it more economically viable in the short to medium term.
Houden's dairy can now independently change and control our grain feeding system and the recipes they use each season.
They now have the ability to control buying patterns around available raw grain resources and business feed needs.
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