Also found this neat video of a 8000 head dairy being built

JD Seller · Feb 11, 2016

I found this video last night of this 8000 head dairy being built in MN over a nine month period. Some pretty busy fellows!!!
Building an 8000 head dairy

J.Wondergem · Feb 11, 2016

That'll put some folks to work.

tracto-man · Feb 11, 2016

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars that cost to build???

Pete in MD · Feb 11, 2016

Great video. Here's another one of a farm in Indiana that milks over 30,000 cows a day.
Big dairy farm

IaGary · Feb 11, 2016

You mean Millions don't you.

notjustair · Feb 11, 2016

I can't even imagine the daily manpower. As a farmer I think about the care for my cows and calves and how longboat takes me on a routine day. I wonder how many people those animals see a day. I have some that go on alert if anyone new is with me feeding. They wouldn't last in that operation! Of course, angus meet the food pyramid in a new spot.

preacher man · Feb 12, 2016

Fair Oaks Farm in IN is the one milking the 30,000 cows. It is located about 40 miles south of Gary IN on I65. They basically have their own exit off of 65. They have a restaurant and also give tours. I just heard in the past couple of weeks they are going to build a hog farm there also. I can't verify if that is true or not.

RalphWD45 · Feb 12, 2016

On both farms I had the same gross thought! All that money sitting in the path of a tornado! I sure wouldn't want to pick up the roofing, the next week.

AllisG · Feb 12, 2016

(quoted from post at 23:36:41 02/11/16) Fair Oaks Farm in IN is the one milking the 30,000 cows. It is located about 40 miles south of Gary IN on I65. They basically have their own exit off of 65. They have a restaurant and also give tours. I just heard in the past couple of weeks they are going to build a hog farm there also. I can't verify if that is true or not.

The hog facility's are up, haven't had time to make the tour there but I was told the barn is one of the most advanced hog facilities technology wise around here.

dzc3 · Feb 12, 2016

I wonder how the people living down wind from the operation like the expansion.

2underage · Feb 12, 2016

That should help push the price of milk down. For farmers that is. The consumer will not see much of a decrease in price.

Old560 · Feb 12, 2016

Amazing, i'd like a garage half the size of that barn

dhermesc · Feb 12, 2016

If you live in the country you live in a commercial zone.

farmerwithmutt · Feb 12, 2016

We had a guy start building one and he got stopped . Turns out the
contract workers hadn't read the fine print the payment was due on
completing the project in other words the guy knew he probably
wouldn't get it built and wouldn't have to pay unless it got done
they got nothing for all their time and money they invested. The guy
was a operator who didn't care about anything but himself and what
he wanted

Mike M · Feb 12, 2016

Wonder how they will get rid of all the manure from that many cows ? Guy in Ohio got in big trouble from that.

rotten robert · Feb 12, 2016

They are over half way through building an expansion to another large dairy here in southern Arizona. Large enough job they set up a portable ready mix plant on site and trucked in all the rock and sand for it. Lots of local boys got a lot of belly dump work in the last several months.

JMS/.MN · Feb 12, 2016

In MN you need a manure management plan for a facility like that....farmer needs to have contracts with other farmers that allow spreading (usually injecting) manure on their land. There are standards set as to the number of acres required. Often times, the manure is sold to those farmers. Liquid manure is analyzed for content so application rates of NPK are known. On our 70 cow dairy we hired a custom applicator, knew the gallons per acre applied, and nutrient content, so we knew actual pounds of NPK.

Spook · Feb 12, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:24:14 02/12/16) In MN you need a manure management plan for a facility like that....farmer needs to have contracts with other farmers that allow spreading (usually injecting) manure on their land. There are standards set as to the number of acres required. Often times, the manure is sold to those farmers. Liquid manure is analyzed for content so application rates of NPK are known. On our 70 cow dairy we hired a custom applicator, knew the gallons per acre applied, and nutrient content, so we knew actual pounds of NPK.

One near me, they are milking about 3K cows, has a treatment plant. They pump manure over a mile to their own plant.

gtractorfan · Feb 12, 2016

Down below is a thread something about an 8,000 cow dairy. Within that thread is a link to a "big dairy farm in Indiana". That one has 30,000+ cows. There's a video showing a carousel that holds 75 cows at a time. It says that dairy produces enough milk for all of Chicago and Indy.

gtractorfan · Feb 12, 2016

Oooops, this was suppose to be posted on the other dairy thread above...

longmeadowfarm · Feb 12, 2016

In a land not too far from "US" .. 8000 milking head would equate to 100 farms.. employing 2.5 off farm people with guaranteed health care and a livable minimum wage. The consumer costs for milk and cheese product is competitive with what we now pay in the US supermarkets. The farmers are paid a price commensurate with the cost of production and agree to limit their production based on quota/supply management. In economic terms this is an economic system based on paying "parity" for raw materials/baseline products/production. .This economic system differs significantly from the commodity based system that puts the setting of prices with the commodity traders. So what does 100 family farms have to contribute to the societal health and stability of the rural countryside.... just let your mind wander beyond self interest and the American way. .. and ponder .. yes ponder who benefits from a system that allows the building of an 8000 milking herd/business. Are you comfortable with your thoughts... ??? Are you a slave to your ideology??? or are you a curious person who asks why we let this happen.... and is freedom to abuse ..the land .. the people.. the society... somehow sacrosanct. Ask yourself ...who benefits from the establishment of an 8000 cow milking herd .. if you are comfortable with the answer.. you may be part of the problem..

Rollie NE PA · Feb 12, 2016

The dairy my buddy ships his milk to just implemented a production quota on all the producers. From what I understand the dairy tried to get some of the producers to go out of business. Milk prices are down and are going lower.

Bkpigs · Feb 12, 2016

yep, and when the government in that fine country says "you need to do etc." everyone must do it because they are a slave to the government. Every time communism and socialism is tried it fails. Collectively communism has killed more than 100,000,000 people. Just look at how many Hitler and Stalin killed, they promised the people a Utopea also.

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