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A milk producing business
The opportuni5es and challenges
January, 2016
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Overview
- Henden is ~500 acres (~370 acres arable & grazing), the land being undula5ng clay
- The strategy is to produce high quality milk over the long term with regard to:
– High standards of both staff and animal welfare and safety – Working well within all regula8ons imposed, including caring for the environment – Being transparent in all that we do – Being financially sustainable
- Henden is not an organic farm, although it puts all organic waste back into the ground
- In 2015/16, we will average some 470 livestock in a closed farm:
– 260 cows in the herd (vs. 140 as a UK average), of which 230 are milked twice daily – 210 “followers” – We calve through the year to try and achieve level produc8on; we do not “block” calve
- We will produce 2.574 mm litres of milk for sale this year (7,032 litres per day)
– Yield per cow in milk should average some 31.4 litres per day (~10,100 litres per cow per year)
- M&S is the exclusive buyer of our raw milk, pick up being every other day
- Our herd will consume 4,700 (wet) tonnes of feed this year (1.84kg per litre of milk sold):
– 1,440 tonnes of concentrates & minerals (0.56kg per litre) – 3,300 tonnes of bulk feed (1.28kg per litre)
- We employ six and a half people on the estate:
– 4.7 work exclusively for the dairy business – 1.3 work on the estate – 0.5 provides the administra8ve support needed
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