The future of sustainable dairy farming is now! 🌱🐄 Together with KRONE Agriculture and SILOKING Mayer Maschinenbau GmbH, we conducted a best practice trial at the Jünck dairy farm in Westphalia. The goal? To optimise the entire milk production process – from high-quality grass silage to precise feed mixing and efficient forage utilisation – with a focus on reducing CO₂ emissions. Thanks to our advanced bolus technology, farmers gain valuable insights that help them improve feed efficiency and lower emissions per litre of milk. This project highlights how innovative approaches can make milk production not only more sustainable but also more profitable. The results speak for themselves! 🚀
Small CO2 footprint for the milk 🥛 Practice makes perfect. True to this motto, KRONE, SILOKING Mayer Maschinenbau GmbH and smaXtec began a joint best practise test in April 2024 on the Jünck dairy farm in Velen, Westphalia. The goal was to optimise the entire chain of milk production from grass in the field through to its utilisation by the cow in terms of efficiency and CO2 emissions. A number of positive effects were evident in this regard in the respective interfaces of the partners involved in the test – providing optimum grass silage (KRONE), precise mixing and distribution of the forage (SILOKING) and optimization of the use of forage by means of sensor technology (smaXtec). The Best Practise Project at the Jünck operation shows impressively how a high quality of grass silage improves fermentation and rumination, which in turn increases forage efficiency and significantly reduces CO2 pollution per litre of milk. This is a model example of how innovative technologies pave the way to more sustainable, efficient and profitable milk production. The crucial factor is that the entire production chain, from harvest to forage and on to digestion, is examined on the basis of data. This gives farmers practical tools with which they can reduce CO2 emission per kg of milk, which is already today being recognised with a bonus by some dairies. Michael Jünck's assessment is accordingly positive: "I'm impressed! I never would have thought that such a short chop length and the precise monitoring could produce such impressive results. The grass silage is aromatic, high-quality – and the cows love it!" he reports. "The findings of the test motivated me to align my entire harvest fleet, the silage process and feeding consistently to the optimum values for my operation. The result has been tangible improvements in our production numbers." #KRONE #smaXtec #SILOKING