Hosts Pernilla and Ulf Samuelsson

Hosts
Pernilla and Ulf Samuelsson
Information about the VMS barn
Milking equipment:
2 x VMS stations
1 DeLaval cooling tank DXCE 10 000 litre
Feed management:
Blandfoder: Mixed feed: Silage + 18 % corn + 18 % maize
Mixed once per day
Storage: Round bales until now but a horizontal silo is now being built
(3 500 m3)
Concentrated feed: 6 x concentrated feed stations, two feed mixers and top feeds
in the VMS station
Distribution of mixed feed: With a feed wagon 12 times per 24 hour period
Calf feeding system:
Calf feeder
Other equipment:
Manure removal system: DeLaval CleanMatic in open manure channels
“If I was going to build today, I would put slats in the waiting area so that the
scraper does not disturb the cows”.
Storage: 2 manure containers, total capacity 4 400 m3
Fittings: 135 x DeLaval CC1800 lying cubicles with rubber mats
Ventilation: Open vents, self-ventilating
Size of barn:
30 m x 66 m
Construction year:
Stage 1 for 70 cows: 2005,
Stage 2 for 70 cows + recruitment : 2007
Total investment:
SEK 11 million excluding cost of own work
Construction cost per cubicle
(Recruitment is estimated as 50 jobs):
SEK 58 000
New VMS barn with FeedFirst™ at Lassagården, Tidan
VMS = Voluntary Milking System
Visitors’ room
Information about the farm
Milk production
There is a visitors’ room for approx. 30 people which is separated off from the barn.
Name of farm:
Direction to the farm
If you come from the north on the E20 –at Mariestad turn left towards Moholm on road 201. Before
Moholm turn right onto road 200 towards Tidan. In Tidan drive under the railway viaduct. At the petrol
station, turn left signed Tibro. Drive for roughly 500 m then turn right signposted Östergård.
After 200m you will arrive at the farm.
For more information about equipment for milk production see:
www.delaval.se (in Swedish)
www.delaval.com (in English with links to DeLaval sites in other languages)
© 2008 DeLaval International AB Layout: Gösta Andersson Production: Anna Falkenstedt
Lassagården
No. of cows:
140
Owners:
Pernilla and Ulf Samuelsson
Yield:
9 800 kg ECM
Address:
SE - 549 91 Tidan, Sweden
Recruitment:
120 animals
No. of milkings / day / cow:
2.4
Milk volume / day / cow:
29 kg
No. of inseminations /
gestation:
1.6
Calving interval:
13 months
Age of heifers at calving:
28 months*
*(high due to buying,
aim is 25-26 months)
Contact person:
Ulf Samuelsson
No. of employees:
1
Area:
140 hectares of fields +
30 hectares of grazing land
including leasehold land
Plan of the VMS barn at Lassagården, Tidan
Ulf and Pernilla in front of the VMS unit.
Samlingsfålla
Motorrum
Behandling
The VMS units are ’built-in’.
Kalvning
Behandlingsbox
Kalvning
Kalvning
Behandlingsbox
ALPRO automatic concentrated feeders.
10-12 st kalvar max 150 kg
10-12 st kalvar max 150 kg
Viewing room on the first floor.
The rotating cow brush is used often.
Feed wagon on rails for coarse feed.
Manure corridor with channel for urine drain.
The round bales are broken up in this unit
before discharge onto the unloading table.