HARVESTORE PRECISION FEEDING SYSTEM - STRUCTURES - Foxland Harvestore, Inc. ( Little Chute, WI & Stratford, WI )

What Is The Harvestore FeedScan precision FEEDING System?

Dairy and beef producers have long envisioned a way to monitor dry matter and nutrient content of their feed. Now, that vision has become a reality with the Harvestore FeedScan precisionFEEDING System. The Harvestore FeedScan precisionFEEDING System allows producers to automatically adjust rations for dry matter variations in real time to match nutritionist recommendations while making each TMR batch.

Forage Nutrient Quality Can Vary Widely

Taking forage samples and sending them to a laboratory for NIR nutrient analysis takes days. The Harvestore FeedScan precisionFEEDING System brings NIR technology to the farm with an analysis of every batch of feed conveyed to the TMR mixer. Producers now have instant on-farm moisture and feed analysis, and feeding system software that automatically adjust the as-is weight to be loaded into the mixer to meet dry matter targets for each batch.

In a Harvestore, moisture content can vary 10 percent of more during the filling period due to weather and field conditions. The NIR Analyzer will find this variance in dry matter when unloading and make the adjustments.

DTM™ IC Feeding Management Software

Easy to use and operate on multiple PCs

Allows programming rations and unloading programs on the PC and tranfers them to the Top Scale through a memory card or wirelessly. More importantly, it acquires historical data coming from the scale for statistical reports on the processes performed along with feedstuff inventory control on both quantity and value.

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DG-Scheduler

Software for managing process automation

A PC program with a friendly user interface, the DG-Scheduler is able to set up programs with specific starting times for execution of rations and/or unloading programs. The saved program is transferred to the Top Scale through the memory card. Rations and unloading programs are started automatically at the time set by the operator.

Top Scale Weighing Indicator

Controls feed adjustments based on real time information

The Top Scale Weighing Indicator is the heart of the Harvestore FeedScan precisionFEEDING System, receiving information on dry matter and nutritional component variation in real time. Features refusal management and hosts up to 100 recipes, 48 distribution programs and 64 pens.

Motor Control

Automatic process control

Activation by the Top Scale indicator activates the relative relay in the motor control box. The motor control allows for a series of relay contacts to be activated, and cam be set by the customer depending upon needs. It is supplied in both wired and wireless versions. Every box is made of 2 output banks, which control 8 relays each, for a total of 16 outputs per each box.

Everyday, producers across North America lose thousands of dollars through inefficient feeding because of the time lag between testing moisture and laboratory nutrient analysis and actual ration mixing – an average default measurement for nutritionist rations – but they will not reflect the higher or lower actual moisture content and nutrient value of the feed fed days or weeks later.

At best, nutrient value of feedstuffs is generally within a range, but is not precise. Ingredient moisture varies as it's loaded into storage, components may be inaccurately weighed and dry matter and nutrients may be only a general guess based on old information.

As a result, nutritionists are required to recommend overfeeding essetial nutrients to provide a safety margin to account for an anticipated variability in feedstuffs –they want to assure their ration recommendations meet the herd's minimal nutritional needs. If the nutritionist know dry matter targets will be accurate, they can fine-tune rations to reduce feed cost, and not risk production drops.

Oftentimes, sending a forage sample into a laboratory for analysis is done only after the fat test or milk production has dropped, providing a retrospective analysis of why.