3500 cow dairy

Dale c mi · Dec 23, 2015

A few pic of a new 3500 cow dairy they are putting up just north of me ( Woodbury ) try to keep you updated.

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

Who's putting that up? DenDulk has a 2500 just west of me and another one straight south,down by Orleans.

D beatty · Dec 23, 2015

I use to delivery into some large milking operations. I had one south of Fort Wayne, Indiana two down around Fair Oaks, Indiana and I had one at Lawrence, Michigan. Some of them where over 5,000 cow operations.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 23, 2015

Terrible way to raise animals, but hey it's economy of scale!

Dale c mi · Dec 23, 2015

Don't know. Think it someone from Fowler. Think they have a big operation up there. They had a sign out there the other day. Don't see it now

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

Somebody on here works for one over there,don't remember who,but it's the one that bought Matt Arends place north of Ionia. He's posted pictures on here before.

jeffcat · Dec 23, 2015

Man when I was a little kid my dads herd was only 32, and that was pretty big in the late 50s. From there they just exploded in size. That many cows is insane. Remember the Buffalo herds of the 1800s and that can give you and idea of how big these herds are. Is there such thing as pasture with that many or do you just keep them in huge pens? What do the eco Nazis do??

K Effective · Dec 23, 2015

The big dairy near Hartford, MI bought up tons of land around it as they were building- in part for inputs to the animals and in part to buffer them from others. They have had some issues with manure in a creek, but for the most part, I have heard few complaints. The neighbors sell them straw to mix with distillers grains for feed.

Nick m · Dec 23, 2015

Dutch meadows is the farm that's building there. Are from Fowler. Am being told the guy is related to Haskins and they're going to raise crops for him.

ohiojim · Dec 23, 2015

don't see how you could even come close to making money with 14.00 milk.....subsidies ???????????

larry@stinescorner · Dec 23, 2015

where was your dads farm?

GVSII · Dec 23, 2015

(quoted from post at 13:48:27 12/23/15) Man when I was a little kid my dads herd was only 32, and that was pretty big in the late 50s. From there they just exploded in size. That many cows is insane. Remember the Buffalo herds of the 1800s and that can give you and idea of how big these herds are. Is there such thing as pasture with that many or do you just keep them in huge pens? What do the eco Nazis do??

erds that size never see the light of day.From the time they come out of the calf hutches until they go on the trailer on their way to slaughter,they are under cover.
3500 head isn't a big herd.Many herds will go way over that.

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

Green Meadows in Elsie Michigan has a website so you can see what goes on there. I don't know how many they're milking now,but the last I heard it was around 5500.
It's not as if the cattle are all crowded in pens,they have plenty of room in the freestall housing spread out over several buildings.
The website's pretty extensive and does a good job of explaining the whole operation.
Green Meadows Farm

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

Haskins has sure been doing some updating to facilities too. Must be gearing up.

Nick m · Dec 23, 2015

Hey. Email me your adress so I can send you this plate. I'll loose it or forget where it is eventually.

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

I sent you an email. My daughter is coming up through there tomorrow.

RBoots · Dec 23, 2015

Enjoy Ruined roads and torn up pavement that is. Numerous 4-6,000 head dairies here in Gratiot county. 75% are owned by Belgians and Hollanders that come here for tax breaks. One of the big boys here has started moving over into Montcalm County, unfortunately for them. They use the "right to farm act" to protect them for everything. They can legally haul full weight loads of anything farm related during frost laws,and so can any anyone bonded to them. If you live on a nice paved road, they'll beat the base out of it after a couple winters of full loads during frost laws. If you live on a nice gravel road, better hope you have 4WD in spring. If a STX500 can get down it with a 3-5 axle tanker, they'll be hauling on it. Usually, the American dairies of the same size try to be more courteous to their neighbors. They will pay to have gravel put down when they tear it up. They will have roads they haul on chlorided before they haul manure. The foreigners do not, I have no use for them. I have first hand experience with this. Understand, I have nothing against dairy farms or even the countries they come from, but, there are less greedy and more courteous ways to go about it. Lets hope yours is American owned.

Ross

RBoots · Dec 23, 2015

Pine River has very high e-
coli? and other bacteria from
cow manure, allegedly,
according to Alma College
students. They are trying to
point the finger at, and have
numerous times, a feed lot
beef producer in the township
I live in. They leave wide
buffer strips along all of
the big ditches and so on,
and spread very little liquid
manure, mostly dry manure,
and fit in immediately. The
liquid is plowed in, they are
very careful. They have told
me they have good neighbors
and don't want to upset them
with smells and such, and for
the most part, it doesn't
smell for having 1,500? cows.
The college doesn't even look
at the foreign dairies though
for some reason, even though
you can watch the manure from
their tankers and drag lines
run right into the county
drains that flow into the
river. Open your eyes Alma
College!

Ross

Jon Bottum · Dec 23, 2015

T & H Dairy from Fowler bought the Arens farm. They are not foreign owned.

rhtx55 · Dec 23, 2015

Del Rio runs around 3300

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...BCF5EF93B6434F66B74BBCF5EF93B6&FORM=VIRE3

rrlund · Dec 23, 2015

Den Dulk in Greenville and Orleans isn't either. They had some large dairies in California too. I don't know if they still have those or not.

Gambles · Dec 23, 2015

There is a town of about 500 in my county that had two 1,500-cow dairies spring up within the last 10 years, so combined, there are now over 3,000 dairy cows near this town. My employer has actually done some work for both of these dairies and I have been inside both operations. (I've done some electrical and heat upgrades for these dairies. I do not specifically work for them)
How has this area changed? The town has not has an economic bump of any kind and the population has not increased. But the city school has had a huge increase in Hispanic kids that can't speak any English.

Pete in MD · Dec 23, 2015

Here's a dairy farm in Indiana that milks 10,000+ cows 3 times a day.
poke here

Frank41 · Dec 24, 2015

Go to youtube to cy harvesting at East Dublin dairy in MN. 12 and 16 row Claas choppers and mountains of silage. Also a very different mowing and windrowing of hay.

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