Aoraki Stockfoods

AORAKI
STOCKFOODS
Specialists in the manufacture of
Calf Meal since 1998
KEN BUCKINGHAM
49 Wilsons Road,
RD8, Waimate, NZ
0800 MEAL4U
TXT 027 299 3484
CALL 03 689 8284
aorakistockfoods.co.nz
www.
Review of 2013
Earlier this year I visited most of the
customers that purchased 5 tonne or more
from us in 2012. These visits can be as short
as 2 minutes or as long as an hour. I even
did a Raspberry cream bun run to the West
Coast on a Sunday.
ken@aorakistockfoods.co.nz
Half way through
November
the
soybean importers
ran out of stock
so we stopped
making
High
Octane to make
our soybean meal
last until the next
shipment arrived. We now have plenty of soybean meal and
High Octane calf meal is available again. The raw material
prices have continued to go against us and while the calf meal
price should have gone up every month I decided I just didn’t
want to go there. So the prices remain the same for the third
month in a row.
It was a struggle to find peas
all season and we have now
seemingly
exhausted
all
supplies and have had to look
at alternatives. After lots of
interesting research I choose
lentils to replace peas rather
than broad beans or
faba beans.
We did sneak away in August and at long
last we got to see Pink live. Awesome!!
The winds in September certainly stumped
us and gave us our longest power cut since
1975.
Yet again we run out of bags and
Daniel had to make a new stencil
(Daniel made the Hi O stencil at
age 11) and as the printed bags
come from China they take a
while to turn up. The temptation
is to buy heaps for next year the
flip side is if I do buy heaps I will
possibly have $10-20k of bags
still in the shed at the end of the
season.
Left: In October and November with our peak production
up 30% from last year often our yard just didn’t seem
big enough.
What this photo doesn’t show is that Interfreight is also
towing a flat deck trailer and there is another truck and
trailer waiting around the corner.
No we are not a truck stop!
We always enjoy getting positive feedback
from the customers and I always think I
must get out and take more photos of
customers in action.
We thank you for your support during 2013 and we wish
you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2014.
It has been a tricky season however
the end result we are all after is happy
healthy calves.
We are no longer open all day or every weekday, however
we continue to make calf meal and one of us is generally
not too far away, just ring or text before you visit. I
look forward to getting on the road again in 2014 and
catching up with as many of you as possible.
Cheers
The meal advantage...
Calves start eating meal at an earlier age, compared to pellets
Calves eat wet meal, but not wet pellets
You can see what is in the meal, nothing is hidden
Calves will lick the ground clean, very little is wasted.
We know what really works... calf meal is what we specialise in
0800 MEAL4U
027 299 3484
ken@aorakistockfoods.co.nz
www.aorakistockfoods.co.nz
Aoraki Calf Meal can be delivered to your farm, or you can uplift it directly from our Feedmill in Waimate