High yield livestock need a high quality basic ration. Ruminants are fussy about their forage. The quality of their basic ration will determine whether your animals consume the forage in high quantities, or not. In addition to energy content, digestibility, odour and taste, a low crude ash content plays a decisive role.
What they like most is basic ration that is clean and tasty. The amount of concentrates used can be reduced. This cuts forage costs while at the same time improving animal health.
Healthy livestock reward you with higher fertility, a longer useful life and, crucially, higher milk and meat yields. The bottom line is that you benefit from clean, high quality forage with more profit from your farm business.
The foundation stone for high quality basic ration is laid by clean harvesting technology. At PÖTTINGER, we stand for forage of the highest standard, and this is assured by all our grassland equipment, beginning with our mowers.
First class cut
With our NOVADISC and NOVACAT disc mowers you set the basis for clean forage thanks to their unique ground tracking and the excellent cutting quality.
"Floating cut" technology was developed by PÖTTINGER back in the 1980s. Optimum weight alleviation of the mower units has top priority. Centre pivot or side pivot mounting with maximum ground tracking, powerful suspension springs or hydraulic cylinders and intelligent kinematics help you harvest quality forage.
“We have 70 dairy cattle on our farm. The quality of the forage is very important to us and that’s why we take great care to make sure the mown crop is clean. The ground tracking of our Pöttinger rear and front mowers on our very hilly terrain is outstanding. We also appreciate the robustness and cost effectiveness of our mowers. They are easy to hitch and easy to operate. When hitching up we particularly appreciate the hydraulic lower linkage arm of our NOVACAT rear mower because it enables easy mounting without having to adjust the linkage struts on the tractor.”
Christian Bäck is a farmer with heart and soul. On his farm in Austria he keeps a breed of Merino, the Merinolandschaf. His farmland is very rough in parts and for this reason it is essential that his grassland machines provide perfect ground tracking. Since 2018 Bäck has relied on the NOVACAT ALPHA MOTION MASTER front mower.
“In my view, a machine’s ground tracking is the be-all and end-all, especially with a front mower. Before I bought the mower I had heard that the ALPHA MOTION just flies over the meadow.”
Christian Bäck Farmer Mühlviertel | Upper Austria | Austria