My Sister Married a Dairy Farmer

John B. · Nov 7, 2014

Here are some pictures of my Sister's and Her husband's dairy operation. Her Husband and his 3 brothers are the owners and operators of the dairy farm. Last time I was told they are milking close to 650 head twice a day.

flying belgian · Nov 7, 2014

Sounds like a lot of work.

John B. · Nov 7, 2014

Here is the front of their Milking Parlor. They can milk 24 cows on each side. The one picture is of their old milking parlor where they could milk 8 on each side. Then there is the calf barn that can hold up to 80 calves. My daughter is the blonde standing by her self. the other youngsters are my son and his girl friend and my two neices in green and orange. The rest of the pictures I took just walking around their homestead. Hope you all enjoy.

John B. · Nov 7, 2014

Yes they don't get much sleep. That's even on a good day when nothing breaks down.

John B. · Nov 7, 2014

How do you get the description of each picture to appear between the pictures? I wrote a brief description before downloading each picture but I don't see it on this posting...mmmmm?

NCWayne · Nov 8, 2014

Great looking operation. I wish I could help with the caption thing, but I've posted multiple pictures before and tried it too, with mixed results. All I can guess is you must just have to hold your mouth right for it to work, and I got lucky once or twice.

Bruce from Can. · Nov 8, 2014

My wife made the same mistake as your sister. Looks like a well run farm. The work there would be relentless. How many enployees? Bruce

omahagreg · Nov 8, 2014

that is quite the set up! As far as captions go, I press return twice between any photo and caption!

El Toro · Nov 8, 2014

My late dad would've like to have seen that operation. About 5 years ago a man from WI that has posted on the Farmall forum contacted me. His brother worked for the Oshkosh truck company. They were built for the Army and he was a factory rep at Aberdeen Proving Ground MD and had married a lady from this area.

They called me and wanted to meet me. The brother that came down told me he was the herdsman where they were milking 1200 cows three times a day. They had three crews each working 8 hours. All of the cows were Holsteins.
Hal

John B. · Nov 8, 2014

Bruce, I think they have 4 or 5 mexicans that help with the milking. My sister feeds the calves.

01gentdc · Nov 8, 2014

dairy life ,,.guaranteed there are good folx fluttering around there ,,, or else it COULD not , Would Not survive ,,. there will always be Just enuf money, more than enuf to do , and plenty to fix on and doctor ,,, and no time to get sick ... Great Uncle joe coined a phrase ,, Ya Got big problems when Your Dreams and goals are not the same as those you loved and raised .. no one in our extended family milks anymore ,,,30 yrs ago there were 10 or more dairies amongst my relatives ...

formenwhogrow · Nov 8, 2014

All those blue tombstones .... Just the sight of that many Harvestore silos gives me nightmares about those Goliath unloaders. They're awesome when they're working good and nothing keeps haylage like a blue tube, but look out Loretta when you have troubles.

Texasmark1 · Nov 8, 2014

Fabulous operaton. When I first moved out here I didn't feel like commuting 43 miles to my job and thought I wanted to be such. Acquired one cow that I milked for the family twice daily for 2 years. That taught me all I needed to know.

Hats off to you folks.

Mark

GregCO · Nov 10, 2014

Great looking operation. Your daughter is lucky in my book. Lots of work for sure. I love the dairy business and wish I still had mine. Never enough sleep and and always too much to get done. I miss it. Love the animals and working with them. My favorite days were me milking all alone with nobody around but the girls to keep me company.

Greg

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