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Tips – Designing and Building Productive Dairy Barns and Facilities

Lester Buildings built its first dairy barns in 1947. Fast forward to 2021 and we’ve upped our game. Now our dairy farm facilities reflect the modern world. We are meeting the needs of dairy farmers and anticipating more. In turn, our amazing farmers provide us with excellent dairy products: rich butters and specialty milks to savory cheeses and ice creams.

Complexities of Dairy Facilities

Lester Buildings’ dairy territory manager Ron Foust describes Lester Buildings as a full-service design, engineering, and manufacturing company with lots of dairy knowledge. In this blog, we talk about designing and building productive dairy barns and facilities. We have a few tips here. But Foust explains complexities like this:

“Dairy barns are complex and no two are alike. All the details could fill a 1,000-page book, regardless of whether you are looking at a small, single building expansion or multi-site commercial operation.”

Getting Ahead in the Dairy World

To help clients who run dairy farms, the professionals at Lester Buildings in partnership with Sapphire Construction, Inc. of Colorado appeal to dairy farmers intent to get ahead. We incorporate the best modern building trends and techniques and provide a broad range of solutions.

Upgrades can create competitive dairy farmers. With Lester, the Sapphire Construction designers and builders will customize any dairy facility. Even our barn renovations incorporate cutting-edge materials and design. The modern engineering and design capabilities are enabling them to be more productive. Production increases, safety and health improve.

Incorporate Modern Science

Building upgrades now reflect the best of science—science that helps our partners such as Sapphire Construction glean the best size and layout for any dairy operation. The calculations and experience we bring to the table enable superior animal welfare, as well as healthy environments for farmers. Modern data capture also provides farmers with the information they need to make the best business decisions.

The results of careful planning pan out. We offer:

• Hallmark engineering that gets it right the first time
• The high-quality, rugged materials used for freestall facilities
• Dairy farm buildings with excellent long-term value
• Improved management of large herds and complexes

Production and Safety

We engineer greater production and safety into the layout and design. After all, mama cows and their calves require special handling. This tends to make dairy businesses proud of their farms. Larger, open free stalls substantially improved ventilation, safeguarding the overall health of all. By keeping the animals happy, farmers must certainly produce higher quality goods!

Tips to Get Going – Upgrading Dairy Facilities

Be sure to have the basics in place.

1. Property – Procure the appropriate amount of acreage to sustain the desired building size and area for spreading manure.
2. Finances – Get your financial institution on board with the construction plans.
3. Permits – Get the proper county and state permissions, which can be a long process.

Dairy Farm Barns and Facilities – Central Colorado

To get started on your dairy barn project, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc., your local Lester Buildings dealer, at (303) 619-7213.