Recently they constructed a new building for their dry cows and springing heifers. The barnyard was a cost-shared project through the Land Conservation Department as part of the Narrows Creek Priority Watershed. Darrell, center in the above photo, spoke to the crowd explaining their farm philosophy. Myers are trying to make their farm as labor efficient as possible without taking on additional debt or expanding to the point where they need a lot of employees. Myers has a flat barn milking parlor.
Cows step up on to a platform in an old stanchion barn and exit through the front.
During milking, eight cows are handled in four units. Roecker's Rolling Acres Ruth and Randy Roecker of Roecker's Rolling Acres in Loganville own and operate a 100-cow dairy. In the above photo Roecker stands in front of his milk house, answering questions. In Roecker's stanchion barn, Dr. Holmes smoked the barn to illustrate the ventilation pattern. Sauk County Pork Producers provided the noon meal.