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CONTRACTING » Jordaan Contracting
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Bulk silage bagger a leap forward Karen Phelps Recent equipment added to the fleet is helping Jordaan Contracting offer farmers in the Bay of Plenty a more comprehensive service, says company owner Japie Jordaan. A new AG-BAG bulk silage bagger is one of the purchases that is saving farmers time and money. “Over 20 years of research has proven that storing chopped silage and wet feed in long, horizontal, oxygen-deficient tubes until feed-out will significantly reduce spoilage losses and improve the quality of feed,” he says.. “Of course this, in turn, contributes to cow productivity and health through better quality feed.” Japie says the bagged silage-pressing machine compacts silage in a way that results in high quality feed. The bulk trucks or trailer back into the bagger and tip their load into the unloading conveyor. The conveyer shifts the load through a set of teething beater that spread the crop out evenly into a constant layer ready for compacting. The forage then falls down into the pressing rotor and is forced into the bag by large pressing fingers, similar to the feed rotor on a baler. The pressing rotor keeps filling the bag until the bag has reached the desired compaction, controlled by the compact markings on the bag. The benefits for farmers include saving time (as there are no tyres to take off a stack or cover to roll back), markings on bag for more accurate feed calculations and no stack face spoilage or mouldy areas to remove. Jordaan Contracting has also recently bought a “tow and fert” machine capable of spraying liquid nitrogen. Japie says this is helping farmers save costs as the liquid fertiliser is more absorbable and doesn’t evaporate as easily. Reports from clients indicate they are halving their fertiliser bills, he says. Other recent purchases include a McHale combi round baler and a Case square baler as replacements. Continual updating of equipment and keeping up with technology, have helped the firm offer clients the latest services, he says.
Japie Jordaan grew up on a 2000-hectare farm in Free State, South Africa. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2001 and now runs Jordaan Contracting, employing 13 staff. Services include cultivation, all aspects of baling and maize silage. A passion for farming has been a key factor in the success of his business, he says, and one of his goals is to buy his own farm. Japie grew up on a 2000-hectare farm in
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the Free State province of South Africa where he managed and owned his own 613ha cattleand-sheep farm and ran a contracting harvesting business with a fleet of up to five combine harvesters. Japie immigrated to New Zealand in 2001 with his wife and worked extensively as a dairy and dry-stock farm manager and operations manager for a contracting business in New Zealand before establishing Jordaan Contracting in 2008. The business now employs 13 staff, including 11 drivers. and Its services include all aspects involved with baling, cultivation and maize silage. In spring, through to mid-September, the
company is busy with contracting. Over winter it offers winter grazing on leased land and sells balage made on the lease block during summer. Around 600 cows were grazed there this year and 80ha of maize was grown to on-sell to customers. Jordaan Contracting also grows, harvests and stacks maize on the farmers’ land. Customers are mainly dairy farmers, along with small number of dry-stock farmers. The company, which is a member of Rural Contractors New Zealand, works in the Bay of Plenty region, focusing mainly on the Te Puke,/ Tauranga area and surrounds.
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