Our school farm always looks to the future

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The school farm is a 142 hectare mixed and stock farm, growing multiple crops and rearing cows and poultry. Mr Rochegude is the farm manager with the help of 3 farm employees.

You can see here  identification sheet

About vocational training

• A typical week for the trainees on the farm : every week, three students attend a vocational training on the school farm (2 students attend and assist for milking and looking after the animals in the morning ; 2 students do the same thing in the evening).
• A lot of tutorial and practical work during the school year for the students.
• The school farm is used by any teachers when it is necessary for the students.

Rotation of the crops during the school year 2011-2012 :

• Wheat: 50.95 ha (or 127 acres)
• Flax: 11.92 ha (or 29.8 ac.)
• Oil seed rape / canola: 14.48 ha (or 36.2 ac.)
• Fodder beet : 7.01 ha (or 17.52 ac.)
• Forage maize: 22.13 ha (or 55.32 ac.)
• Pasture : 31.10 ha (or 77.75 ac.)

Poultry husbandry (quality label) :

• 12,600 chickens a year (in three periods, with 4,200 chickens for each period).
• They arrive at the farm when they are 1 day old and they leave 12 weeks later.
• Live weight of the chickens when they arrive at the slaughterhouse : 2.35 kg.
• Feed conversion ratio: 2.95

Dairy husbandry :

• 65 milking cows (with Corolle).
• 70 heifers.
• ¾ of the herd is composed of the Prim-Holstein breed and ¼ of the Norman breed.
• 460,000 liters of milk quota sold to the cooperative dairy Senoble and direct selling.
• An average of 8,150 liters of milk (at 7%) per cow and per year.
• Protein content: 33.5 gr/liter.
• Butter fat content: 42 gr/liter.

A lot of investment for the future :

Agroforestry,  turn a part of the Area used for Agriculture into organic farming,  purchase farm implement (a tractor, a vehicle, an automatic system detecting cows in heat and ready to calve via mobile phone).

If you want further information about the farm, go and connect to the farm diary : L.I.E.N. (in French, sorry)

Thanks a lot Mrs Taron-Stein !!!! It's so great !