That is what drives us at BvL: We work intensively with farmers around the world to further develop our modular feeding technology and adapt it to individual requirements. In this way, we develop flexible machine solutions in personal exchange that precisely fit the agricultural orientation, livestock, feed mixes, barn types and machinery.
Franz Brinker from Salzbergen runs a dairy farm with 200 dairy cows and corresponding calves. He mainly uses maize silage.
In order to optimise and control the operational processes, Mr Brinker relies on the V-CONNECT Dairy Feeder. The feed management system makes it possible to document feed consumption and feed costs and to run analyses.
The farm has relied on BvL technology for several years and he is very satisfied with the robust and low-maintenance machines.
Jos Faassen runs a dairy farm with 140 cows in Sint Jacobiparochie, Friesland (Netherlands).
A BvL-Megastar silo block cutter supports him in his daily work. The robustly constructed machine cuts blocks of 1.10 m depth and the blocks can be easily deposited in the feeding kitchen. The BvL-Cut Control is a practical aid so that you can see directly whether the silo block cutter is positioned straight in the silo.
Christian Kluge-Sammer is Junior manager of the agricultural production Reuth in the Saxon Vogtland (Germany). The farmer has 200 hectares of grassland and 800 hectares of arable farm land. Mr. Kluge-Sammer kept 200 dairy cows with own young stuff and 50 suckler cows. Because of the old buildings the farmer has limitted heights clearance and very narrow passage ways.
The farm has relied on BvL feeding technology since 1993 and the V-MIX LS is now the seventh machine. The great advantage of this self-loader is that all the work involved in feeding can be done with one machine: Filling, feeding and bedding!
Jan Lamprecht, managing director of Rinderhof Agrar GmbH in Seubtendorf in south-eastern Thuringia (Germany), keeps 550 dairy cows with with female youngstock on the farm together with his wife. The dairy cows are kept in old farm buildings/ sheds. That means that the cows are fed with a belt system.
The main argument of the V-MIX DRIVE was the intake roller (thus the structure of the fodder is kept).
Jörg Schäfer, together with his family and one employee, runs a dairy farm in Alheim, Niedergude in eastern Hesse (Germany). In the meantime, the family has opted for a fourth BvL-machine. A big challenge of the farm is the large amount of grassland.
Due to the distance from their shed to the storage of silage, the acquisition of a self-propelled is an enormous labour-economical advantage.
Johannes Schäfer from Willingen (Rattlar) in northern Hessen (Germany) runs a dairy farm with 630 dairy cows with his family. The farm is located at an altitude of 650 metres and is therefore almost a pure grassland farm. More than 70 % of the feed is grass silage.
In the meantime, the Schäfer family has decided to buy a third BvL-mixer. During the consultation, it quickly became clear to the family that the BvL-mixer was the right solution, as it was customised and made to their needs.
Jaiden Drought from the Taranaki region on the west coast of the northern island in New Zealand runs a dairy farm of over 100 ha. He has been feeding his 360 dairy cows for five years with a trailed feed mixer from BvL. His V-MIX Plus 22-2S external filler is equipped with a lateral conveyor elevator for optimal filling of the feed troughs.
This individual equipment was one of the decisive factors for Jaiden to decide in favour of a feed mixer wagon from BvL. In addition, Jaiden is convinced by the high reliability of the feed mixer in its daily work. Through BvL's New Zealand partner Webbline Agriculture, he received comprehensive advice from local contacts on site. After the order was placed, the production was carried out in Germany and the shipment was initiated.
