The temperatures in North Dakota make it impossible to grow feed for your livestock in the field year round, but one company says they have a solution.
It’s a innovative way you can grow fresh wheat and barley for your livestock all year.
HydroGreen Global Technologies created a six-level growing system to grow crops for livestock in just six days.
You plant one level a day and harvest one level a day, that way you continually have fresh crop you’ve grown to give to your livestock 365 days of the year.
The largest system HydroGreen sells will produce 4,000 pounds of fresh feed everyday.
“Nutritionally this feed is going to be about an 18 to 19 percent protein. It’s going to have about 95 percent energy of corn without the starch load that you’re going to get in a grain. It’s a really neat feed that works for a lot of different animals,” said Brandon Peterson, business development HydroGreen Global Technologies.
Peterson said typically most producers will put up a building on the ranch for the system specifically keeping the temperature between 68 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit with 65 percent humidity.
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“Our family is dedicated to protecting the prairie. We strive to work smarter on our ranch by applying our business and consulting expertise and focusing on ranch innovation and sustainability. With climate change, technology advances and decreasing natural resources, we know we must operate our ranch differently. With the HydroGreen system, we can now produce better, faster, and stronger for ourselves and the planet.”
“My family is originally from Holland, I grew up on a dairy farm, and I’ve been in the industry all my life. Talking with my parent’s friends who are immersed in the veggie industry, they recommended Iinvestigateoptions to produce lettuce in a sustainable way. I looked into the greenhouse and indoor vertical warehouse systems, but they could not meet my needs. I needed to minimize my risk, space and lower my labor costs.
“After a significant drought and taking over my family ranch, I was looking for a more cost-effective way to produce our fodder. I knew there were better producer options out there, but most of the systems had too much manual labour and seed obligations that were not cost-effective. The HydroGreen system’s value proposition was compelling. The fodder’s nutritive value is exceptional for our herd and the system is time-efficient. I run one piece of machinery for 35 mins a day when in the past, it would have taken me a few hours a day and three machines using traditional equipment. In our neck of the woods, one six-rack HydroGreen system is the equivalent to 320 acres of South Dakota prairie sitting inside a 60 x 40 building. It is essentially drought resistant ‘Land on a Stand’ which produces grass every day, in any weather, in less than an hour.”