TOP 20 TIPS

  • Top 20 Tips

    • Switch from incandescent lighting to T-8 fluorescent lighting in your barns
    • Use dimmers and motion sensors on your barn lights
    • Match tractor size to the size of implements
    • Ensure equipment tyres are properly inflated
    • Ensure that equipment and machinery are suitably maintained following the manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule
    • Make sure that the windows and doors in your farm buildings are tight fitting and well sealed
    • Insulate farm building outside walls with greater than R20 and ceilings with greater than R30
    • Consider the use of solar energy around the farmstead or on-farm (for powering water pumps and electric fences)
    • Switch to a milk pre-cooler system to cool the milk before it enters the bulk milk tank
    • Check that the timer settings for the solenoid valve on the water system of plate pre-coolers allow enough time for the milk to be cooled, but not so long as to cause water waste
    • Avoid excessive use of borehole water during parlour wash down to minimize disposal costs for dirty water
    • Use variable speed drives (VSD) on vacuum and milk pumps on your milking equipment
    • Look into adjusting lights in the dairy barn to increase milk production
    • Install a heat reclaimer
    • Investigate availability of water recycling equipment
    • Insulate hot water lines and refrigeration lines going to the milk vat
    • Use a timer on your water heater so the water is the right temperature only when you need it
    • Maximize natural ventilation in the barn
    • Clean ventilation fans
    • Look into doing an on-farm energy audit
 
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What is the European Council of Young Farmers?

CEJA is the voice of Europe’s next generation of farmers to the European institutions. CEJA’s main objective is to promote a younger and innovative agricultural sector across the EU 27 and to create good working and living conditions for young people setting up in farming and those who are already “Young Farmers”. CEJA achieves this by acting as a forum for communication and dialogue between young farmers and European decision makers.

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