Our Dairy Farm

Settled in Sauce de Maciel area, 4 kms away from the city of Sarandi Grande, the Dairy Farm and Stud "El Grillo" founded 40 years ago, is devoted to the milk production and Holstein Cattle breeding.

Our production, as the rest of uruguayan dairy production, is manly based on pastures with the addition of concentrates (200 grs./litre milk as an average). At the same time, we use hay, maize and sorghum silage in Winter and Summer crops (forage sorghum or corn plants ) in Summer. The area devoted to the dairy production is 530 hectares with a 90% of the area in rotation (60% permanent pastures and 30% of forage annual crops).

An average of 400 dairy cows are milked annualy making a total production of 2.700.000 litres of milk on the last year, these being of the highest quality (AAA). The Rearing Farm of 342 hectares, settled 6 kms. from the Dairy Farm supports the rest of the cattle categories, weaned female calves to pre-calving heifers; with a soil management and rotation similar to the dairy farm area. Sometimes it provides opportunities of certain reserves here.