Fazenda Boi Gordo came out in Pecuária MG on the Use of “Compost Barn”
With a name that defines the company’s objective, Fazenda Boi Gordo, achieved a leap in productivity by using the “Compost Barn” as confinement! National agriculture is in constant evolution and, as a result, new opportunities are being presented and used by those who propose to carry out serious and well-planned work. This person is known as Leonardo Rodrigues Lopes, the famous Leo Boiadeiro, located around Minas Gerais. Get to know this system that has been showing great profitability to the livestock farmer at L2 Agribusiness! With work that began in 2008, Fazenda Boi Gordo, located in Tiros, in the Midwest region of Minas Gerais, carries out the practice of confinement of lean cattle for finishing. Check below how the use of a Compost Barn system allowed savings on medication and increased the profitability of the operation!
The group is known as L2 Agribusiness, which is also dedicated to the production and sale of other agricultural products such as soy, seeds, sorghum, garlic and corn, with the company’s motto: “Producing quality from the field to your table”.
Until 2019, intensive finishing was exclusively outdoors, all year round, and, as in any confinement of this type, dust is a factor that triggers respiratory problems in animals, reducing productivity and bringing excessive expenses with medicines. In view of this, rural producer Leo Boiadeiro sought to design and plan the coverage of the installation, in order to solve the problem. But what was a way out of the activity for one, for the other it meant a great opportunity for growth in livestock. The owner of the farm was already thinking about solving this problem in a more efficient way and covering the installation would be one of the solutions. That’s when a unique opportunity arose: last year, his neighbor, a dairy farmer, was in trouble and offered him the property, Fazenda Paraíso, for lease. Along with it, two compost barn-type sheds, that is, a facility with a resting area attached to the trough, where the cows received their daily ration.
It should be noted that the use of covered structures in the confinement of beef cattle is a practice that has been increasingly adopted on properties. In addition to reducing dust, it allows animals to be confined throughout the year, increasing the number of batch turns and, consequently, productivity and profit per area. Returning to the purposes of Fazenda Boi Gordo, the opportunity to lease the Compost Barn, in addition to putting an end to health problems, would add another 1,200 animals for slaughter to its livestock portfolio, which accounts for 40% of its company’s revenues ‒ L2 Agronegócios , whose flagship is agriculture (production of garlic, soy and corn).