Roughage tour Kick-off meeting
Roughage Tour 2022 from Boerenbusiness start
After a winter break of 2,5 months, it's time to start with the Boerenbusiness Roughage Tour 2022† The unofficial kick-off was on Thursday 17 February with a meeting with the participating dairy farmers and the partners of this year's Roughage Tour. Two new dairy farmers are participating in this edition, who will monitor a plot of grassland and silage maize for the tour.
Several new commercial partners have also joined this year's Roughage Tour. The group met at Hendrik and Klaasje Spiker's dairy farm in Staphorst. The Boerenbusiness Roughage Tour will also follow this year a parcel of grassland and a parcel of silage maize at ten dairy farms spread across the Netherlands. on Boerenbusiness Dealer kept visitors informed of the growth development of these plots, including the results from grass and silage maize samples. As a result, a good impression can be obtained of the harvest and the quality of the roughage in Dutch dairy farming.
Interesting discussions
At the kick-off meeting, Sven Boogaard from the company presented AgroExact the barriers that the dairy farmers will use on their fields during the tour. This allows all climate conditions on the plot to be measured. Then Herman Krebbers, expert projects and innovations at Delphy, the results of several fertilization trials that were carried out last year on a few plots of maize. This has already led to a number of interesting discussions that look promising and will certainly be discussed in the upcoming season Boerenbusiness† Finally, Jan Roothaert, project manager of Limagrain, concluded with a presentation about Agrillity, a maize cultivation aid that will also be used in the coming growing season of the Roughage Tour.
In the afternoon, the group was scheduled for a tour of the Spiker family's farm, where approximately 300 cows are milked and 160 hectares of land are worked for roughage for the dairy cows. All the farm work is done in-house, with all the maize and grass being chopped ourselves.
Ronald Smit
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