Contracting
As well as being a dairy farming business we also self contract all of our silage with a Claas forager and new series Schuitemaker loader wagons chopping around 12000 hectares annually of grass and lucerne.   700ha of maize silage is planted and harvested annually and 300ha of whole crop cereal silage is also harvested. Harvesting begins in the month of October and continues right through to May each season. Following the end of the harvesting season the contracting division is busy with ground work preparation, seeding crops, re-grassing pasture and general maintenance on the dairy farms. To compliment the dairy farms and contracting division, the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group also has its own engineering/mechanical workshop for repairs and maintenance on plant and equipment.  


The type of machinery utilised is:


Tractors

John Deere 7R and 8R Series
Fendt 936,927,824
John Deere 9560 Track machine (Field work)

 

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Silage Equipment

2016 Krone Big M 420
Pottinger four rotor rake
Schuitemaker 580, 6600 and 8400 Loader wagon's
2013 Claas jaguar 870 Chopper
Class mazie front 8 rower
Whole crop front 

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Ground and Farm Equipment

Maxitill 
Air rator rippers
Kuhn power harrows 
Maize planter 12 rower
Direct drills
Four Cat diggers 2, 15, and two 20 toners 
Joskin 18000L, 26000L and 28000L effluent Tankers
Ag tip trailer's
7m one pass cultivation unit. 

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