The Boutwell and Pigott dairies will begin milking around 4 a.m. Grandy Ladner begins the first milking of the day around 7 a.m. Up north in Tate County, young farmer dairyman Grandy Ladner and his employees begin milking about 7 a.m. This is later than the norm, but Ladner will finish up a lot later than the first two dairymen. Ladner's two sons and daughter help him sometimes on his 430-cow operation.
Dairies generally milk again in early afternoon.
That session ends some four to five hours later. Ladner will begin his second session in the early evening. He will finish up around midnight. Before cows enter a milking parlor, their undersides are washed. Some barns have lot washers for this purpose.