Fresh outside air replaces tempered air during the summer and is exhausted by thermostatically controlled fans. One exhaust fan runs continuously regardless of outside temperature to keep air moving through the barn. The calf barns and dairy pole barn wastes are handled as solid manure. A pollution control storage tank is also utilized in the dairy pole barn outside lost for collection of barnyard runoff. All forages and high-moisture corn are stored in upright silo.
Corn is rolled directly as it comes from the silo.
A truck mounted reel-type mixer blender is utilized to prepare all TMRs. The truck is equipped with load cells and an electronic scale for weighing all ingredients. The TMR is weighed to each individual cow and recorded. Weighback is taken with a cart equipped with an electronic scale to record the dairy oats of each row. Cattle in the warm confinement slatted-floor barn and cattle in the outside dairy pole barn lots are fed directly in the bulk from the truck hopper.