Dairy Pulse: Producers Ready to Invest in New TMR Wagons

If you had the chance to update your feed equipment, what would you invest in first?

March 2021 Dairy Pulse Poll
March 2021 Dairy Pulse Poll
(Lori Hays/Clinton Griffiths)

If you had the chance to update your feed equipment, what would you invest in first?

Data from a recent Dairy Herd Management Pulse Poll found that dairy producers are most interested in purchasing a new total mixed ration (TMR) wagon. In fact, nearly half of the respondents (49%) noted that they would rather purchase a TMR wagon before other feed technology (51%).

In a tight race for second place, robotic feed pushers (23%) edged out new feeding software (21%) with hands-free automated feeding systems (7%) following in third.

Here’s a breakdown of the 112 responses:

What would you choose? Let us know in the comments below!

The Dairy Pulse is a text message polling system for producers. If you want to be part of the in-crowd responding to these polls text Dairy to 31313.

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