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Jake Peissig of JTP Farms of Dorchester, Wisconsin, talks about his freestall barn to attendees of a Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin farm tour showcasing innovation and technology. He uses a 'milk first' guided-flow design where cows are milked by robots, then go to the feed bunk and then the stall area. They're sorted based on milking permission whether they just return again to the feed bunk or are milked. 'They basically make a circle on average of 12 to 14 times a day,' he says. 'We do this using a series of one-way gates. We have two single-robot 60-cow pens and three 95-cow double-robot pens with a toll-booth design.'
A block cutter is used for cutting 3-foot by 3-foot by 6-foot blocks of haylage and corn silage for the feed kitchen. Each block weighs about 6,000 pounds. Feed that's cut in blocks will stay aerobically stable for longer than loose feed. Moving feed in blocks also helps limit shrink, Jake Peissig says.
A sign welcomes visitors to JTP Farms.
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part article. The first part was published in the Sept. 21 issue of Agri-View.
Craig Rogan
Corey Hodorff
Lynn Grooms writes about the diversity of agriculture, including the industry’s newest ideas, research and technologies as a staff reporter for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.
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Jake Peissig of JTP Farms of Dorchester, Wisconsin, talks about his freestall barn to attendees of a Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin farm tour showcasing innovation and technology. He uses a 'milk first' guided-flow design where cows are milked by robots, then go to the feed bunk and then the stall area. They're sorted based on milking permission whether they just return again to the feed bunk or are milked. 'They basically make a circle on average of 12 to 14 times a day,' he says. 'We do this using a series of one-way gates. We have two single-robot 60-cow pens and three 95-cow double-robot pens with a toll-booth design.'
A block cutter is used for cutting 3-foot by 3-foot by 6-foot blocks of haylage and corn silage for the feed kitchen. Each block weighs about 6,000 pounds. Feed that's cut in blocks will stay aerobically stable for longer than loose feed. Moving feed in blocks also helps limit shrink, Jake Peissig says.
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