Tyrone O'Leary Composting Barn

BUILDING DETAILS

Size:  82m long x 37m Wide

Style: Gable

System: STRATOS - Futura Box-beams

Manawatu dairy farmer Tyrone O'Leary talks about investing in an Aztech Buildings Composting Barn, the benefit to his herd, and how the barn has helped him realise an extra $300,000 increase per year in milk solids.

Tyrone also covers many other topics, like:

• How to increase Milk solids per cow - kgMS
• How often and when to use a composting barn
• Compost Bedding use and effluent management process
• Wintering with no cow barn vs having a cow barn
• How to reduce pugging
• Calving benefits of a composting cow barn
• Cow Condition and BCS improvement with a composting barn
• Motivators to invest in a composting barn
• How does Aztech composting barns compare to other cowbarn suppliers?
• Permanent Aztech steel/tin roof barns vs Temporary tunnel house shelters plastic or canvas roofs
• Feed utilisation / conversion efficiency with the composting barn
• Savings by not wintering off farm - other ways to winter on farm
• Summer benefits of a composting barn / roof over cows
• Environmental benefits of the barn,
• How to finance a dairy barn investment
• How easy is it to build with Aztech Buildings?