Owner: |
Dan & Bill Andreas |
Location: |
Sugarcreek, Ohio |
Size: |
1000 Cows |
Parlor: |
Double 20 rapid-exit herringbone, fully automated milking system |
Housing: |
New freestall for 600 head. Remodeled freestalls for 400 |
Waste Management: |
Fully integrated flush system for all lanes. Solids separation, and 120 day, two stage, storage ponds. Recycle system, and traveling gun spreading of water. |
Services Provided By Five-G Consulting
Involved from the very beginning, Five-G Consulting worked with the owners, equipment manufacturers, local contractors and state agencies to successfully permit and build this dairy in Sugarcreek, Ohio. The designers at Five-G laid out the entire facility and conducted monthly on-site visits throughout construction to aide in coordinating the entire project from ground breaking until the first cow was milked.
- Construction at the Andreas Dairy included new housing for 600 head, a parlor facility, and new waste system.
- The new parlor facility includes state-of-the-art milking, storage, and cooling systems as well as complete stand-by power.
- The new parlor is a double 20 in a rapid-exit herringbone configuration.
- New freestalls are in head-to-head configurations with center drive through feeding and automatic head locks.
- All of the facilities are flush cleaned with new valves such as this.
- All flushed wastes are collected in this central tank and pumped over a solid’s separator to the waste ponds.
- The separator removed all solids greater than .060 inches prior to storage for use as recycle water in the flush system or ultimate spreading onto cropland.