Tuesday, 06 August 2013 13:42

Feed trailers raise efficiency, cut waste

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PKE FEEDING out efficiency is raised and wastage reduced with a newly available range of feed trailers imported from the Philippines by Winton Stock Feed, Southland. The company makes them there in its own factory.

 

The XL Multi-Feed trailers are for carrying bigger loads. They have a galvanised frame and bin, are wide and scalloped, allowing cows easy access.

Says company principal Nelson Lindsay, “I could see a need to get away from using ATVs to haul PKE trailers, and to use tractors to do the loading. Trailers [can be] too small, farmers filling them to the brim and stock wasting material by tipping it over the side.” 

The trailers are 6.9m, and the bins 5m long, 1.58m wide and holding 2 tonnes of PKE or three large bales. They have a quick hitch to attach to the tractor.

“With the extra width it is easier to load material or bales and it gives cows greater access.”

The trailers have bigger tyres than are commonly found. 

They can also be used as mobile troughs for feeding molasses.

Starting ten years ago as a feed mill making nuts and pellets, Winton Stock Feed has grown to be one of New Zealand’s largest independent importers of molasses and PKE for feeding stock. 

The company has a nationwide dealer network.

“We source our supplies from Thailand, Philippines and Fiji and bring it to seven ports in New Zealand and immediately into our distribution network,” says operations manager Paul Jackson.

The company runs businesses and vehicles in Fiji and the Philippines, adjacent to sugar mills, the source of molasses. This comes in flexible tanks inside a frame and in 6.096m containers. After use the flexi tanks are washed and returned. All products are sold direct to farmers.

Price: $5900+GST.

0800 MOLASSES (0800 6652 7737)

www.wintonstockfeed.co.nz

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