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farmerjohn

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After a year and a half of delays and paperwork, my brother got his new dairy facility construction underway last week. He is building a 108 freestall barn with milking parlor to replace the current barn with 32 tie stalls and pipeline and 35 freestall addition. I milked cows there for 20 years and know what a headache it is to switch strings of cows and kneeling down all the time. He hopes to be moved in by December. In the last photo the original homestead barn is to the far left built 1887, the round-roof dairy barn built 1972 with polebarn addition built 1983, and new barn going up next in line.
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Looks like everything is off to a great start. Just where is that, farmerjohn? Some right pretty country in the last photo.
 
Congrats to your brother on his new dairy barn. Iam glad to hear of someone building a new barn on a faimly farm ,for their milking herd. And not some 500-1000 cow barn , staffed with Mexicans,doing the farm work. When I read Hoards Dairyman, it seems , only the huge dairys are featured. People like your brother are the real dairymen. Bet he has dreamed of this new barn for a long time, hope it serves him well. Bruce
 
Nice pictures. I see the foliage is starting to change where you are at. Here in Berks County, most of the leaves are still green.
 
That is a big undertaking! Looks like He is building a similar system to what the dairy farmers use here in the UK. Nearly all dairy cows are in what we call cubicle houses and milked through a parlour. Some are now using robot milkers.....We don't have any Mexicans here.....yet!
I wish him all the best with his new venture......Sam
 
Before or after it ened up on top of the silage bags! ;)

Nice undertaking, neighbor put up similar a decade ago, about the same size. He reworked the dairy barn into the parlor, and put the free stall 100 feet away. Hills and buildings and such....

Paul
 
Looks great. I am sure he has dreamed of this day for a long time.

Having come from a dairy family where the only enclosed building on the farm was a double 4 herringbone milking parlor; I just can not grasp how you guys build such big buildings; keep cows inside 24/7; milk so few cows; and still make enough money to live on.
 
I had a man to stop by here 4 or 5 years ago that still post's on here once in awhile. He's the herdsman in Wisconsin that milk 1200 cows 3 times a day. They have three eight hour crews that milk and clean the milking parlor before the next shift starts. I could use a big load of that manure for my garden. The cows are all Holstein.
Hal
 
nice addition to the farm! I have no doubt your brother will take care of 100 cows easier than he could do in the 65-70 cow old setup. I have a 110 cow freestall with a computer feeder and a double 7 parlor with automatic takeoffs. much easier than our old 60 cow tiestall and double 4 parlor w/o takeoffs, that burned in 1989.
 
Friend down here had his barn burn about five years ago. We moved the herd to a nearby farm for a few weeks while the barn was rebuilt, and he added two robotic milkers into the new parlor. He was lucky and didn't lose any cows in the fire- it was in the middle of the day. His herd was at 100 cows, so he added about twenty more, and they now milk themselves about 2.8 times a day. Production is up, and SCC is down, along with a lot of work. He just has to monitor liquid levels and feed. The computer does most of the rest of the decision making.
 
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