Faull Farms - New Zealand

THE PLANT

Dairymaster Automated Milking Parlour

The SuperShed is a 60 bail rotary operation from Dairymaster in Ireland and serviced and maintained by Dairymaster NZ (based in Stratford). The ‘one person operation’ design includes an stainless steel construction for platform and surrounds, two separate driving systems with variable drive units, safety gates with full rail and shed wide safety provisions, twin 100mm stainless milk lines with jetstreams for dual supply (main milk production and colostrums & animal rearing milk production); touch control milk diversion system; pulsation line with electronic pulsators and looped stainless wash line with Aquajets.

THE FACTS & FIGURES

Owners
Operators

Sharemilkers
Farm Size

Cow Numbers
Animal Breed
Production

Feed Systems

Faull Farms Limited
Trewithen Partnership (same shareholders as Faull Farms Limited) with Gavin Faull undertaking the role of Managing Director.
Tony & Loie Penwarden
(a) Milking Platform - 288 Hectares,
(b) 3 runoffs with a total of 80 Hectares consisting of 18 on Otaraoa/Inland North Rd, 45 on Snell Rd and 17 on Bertrand Rd.
1200
Friesian and Friesian cross breeds.
534,000 kg MS 2015-2016 season.
Vat Capacity - 43,000 litres
Grass and supplementary feeding systems using grass silage, maize silage, Palm Kernel and Avon Feed, In Shed computerised feeding systems and feed pad system.

CONTACT US
285 Ngatimaru Rd, Tikorangi, Waitara,
Taranaki, New Zealand
Telephone: (649) 5246 380
Faksimile: (649) 5246 023