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The purpose of this report was to show examples on possible solutions for conservation, storage and
how to process concentrate feeds to dairy herds, and with the systems managed on farm level. We aimed at facilitating the planning and projecting for consultants and farmers. To that end, we made six cases in point. The sizes of the farm examples were chosen in order to predict the number of cows per farm in different regions of Sweden 10 years from present date. The amount of feeds per farm
was calculated based on assumed milk yield and on the NorFor feed evaluation system. In some of the farm examples, we have based our calculations on purchases of dry feedstuffs, e.g. grain and faba beans, in batches from other farms or from dealers.

In the present examples, we also aimed at including technology and management systems based on present knowledge on the cutting edge. This orientation was chosen with the hope of giving advisors and farmer’s inspiration and support and thereby contribute to best possible investments at farm level. The project, of which this report is a part, was funded by the Kamprad family foundation forresearch.