Excellent quality medium moisture haylage continues to be the basic key to achieving the Prinzhaven Dairy's position as one of the top herds for management score in Prince Edward County.

A true model of focusing on sustainable production the current average of this 70 cow herd stands at 44 kg. of 3.8% B.F.and 3.3% Prot.milk produced daily.Haylage from the farms (2) 20 x 80 Harvestores maintain the farms total forage program with no corn silage being included in the ration.

A Harvestore 20 x 32 provides storage for the dairy's high moisture corn requirements.

Purchased off-farm feed costs for protein(distillers grain and soya meal)based on June 2011 values are an average of 0.78 cents per cow /day or 1.8 cents/litre





The Harvestore's first-in first-out oxygen limiting storage is definitely an asset to avoid the high input costs of todays volatile commodity markets.

               Philip Prinzen