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Blair and Neil Sidwell needed to build a maze silage bin and with a farm of 139 Hectares on the Ruawai flats just south of Dargaville, they milk 350 cows. With 35 years experience they know what they want and they called Interbloc for the solution to their problem.
Neil said" build a Maze silage bin 40M x 20M 1.2M high". Two weeks later Blair called again and said that they had the concrete floor down and Interbloc could install the bin. Interbloc arranged the transport of the blocks to the Sidwells farm and within 3 days the team assembled their new bin, Two weeks after that the maze silage was in the bin.
With the mixer wagon the maze is mixed with palm kernel, minerals and molasses, Blair calculates his feed requirements to be approximately 1 tonne of maze silage per cow per year. The aim of feeding maze silage is to assist in the optimisation of animal condition, health and production.
The decision to build the maze silage bin can after a competitive bid process by the brothers. Blair said "Interbloc was 50% better on price compared to the nearest competitor. Combine this with the flexibility, durability and speed of construction and the excellent service provided by Interbloc and it was a no brainier".
Scott Bright Founder of Interbloc added that the benefits with an interbloc silage bin compared to a standard storage bun on the ground are as follows,
- No more mud
- No more waste which can vary from 10% to 30% so on this size storage can be up to $23000.00
- Piece of mind i.e. Reduced losses from blue mould.
- Better compaction so there is better storage and production of silage.
In summing up his dealings with Interbloc Blair says, "Next year we plan to increase the herd size and will therefore require more maze silage. The flexibility of the Interbloc solution means increased storage capacity will be achieved by adding another row of blocks taking it from 1000M3 to 1440M3. It is that simple, yet another reason why we chose the Interbloc solution"
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