C36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1981
Moor builds travel idem into new dairy barn
NEWARK, Dela. - For Barbara
Moor, the best thing about a trip to
Europe is the chance to catch up on
the latest developments in manure
storage and biogas technology.
Obviously not an average tourist,
Barbara and husband Alfred Moor,
Jr. farm 2000 acres near Kenton,
Delaware.
Great believers m the ad
vantages of diversity, the Moors
produce com, soybeans, wheat,
peas, lima beans, sweet com, and
milk. They also do custom work,
and even keep race horses as a
hobby.
There’s always lots to be done,
particularly smce Barbara also
puts in a 40-hour week in the office
of a local supermarket. By the end
of summer she’s ready for a well
earned vacation, Barbara signs up
for George Haenlem’s Extension
dairy and farm tours.
Each August, Haenlem leads a
group of interested farmers and
others on an educational tour of
innovative, energy-efficient farms,
agricultural experiment stations,
cheesemaking operations, and the
like. The itinerary seems tailor
made for a farmer like Barbara,
who likes to look for better ways of
getting a job done.
Barbara's travels paid off last
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year when she and her husband
decided to build a new dairy
operation from the ground up.
Having visited many farms m
surrounding states as well as in
Europe, Barbara knew what she
wanted: an attractive, energy
efficient bam with low main
tenance needs; good cow traffic
flow; a hospital area for sick cows,
blood tests and maternity; and the
latest in labor-saving devices and
sanitation.
With these ideas in mind, she sat
down with dairy equipment dealer
Grerar Bennett, builder Sam
Yoder, and his assistant Eric
Rambo of Sam Yoder and Son Co.
Having begun his career as a
chicken catcher, Yoder had always
specialized in broiler houses. His
company had never built a dairy
bam. But like Bennett, Yoder and
Rambo were willing to try to put
Moor’s idea in operation.
The new building is a good
looking, shiny red structure on the
outside, but its real beauty is m its
engineering.
The bam is open on one side, and
has an overshot roof with open side
ventilators.
The bam features 145 free-stalls
in a double-six herringbone pat
tern.
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The milking parlor has weigh
jars below the level of the cows, a
feature Haenlem has been been
advocating for yc. • :. ■ snj s
gravity flow aids in the production
of quality milk. Milk has a better
flavor when it doesn’t have to be
lifted, which adds oxygen to the
milk and causes off flavors.
What’s more, a weigh jar holds a
cow’s entire production before it is
released into the milk line. This not
only makes it easy to see how
much milk each cow produces
each day, but also makes it
possible to discard any problem
milk before it gets into the tank.
The dairy specialist says weigh
jars can spell the diference bet
ween profit and loss in a dairy
business.
One of Bennett’s suggestions was
to add a new backflush system to
the automatic cleaning equipment
for the milk lines and machinery.
The backflush system cleans the
milking machinery after each cow,
thereby helping to prevent
mastitis, the most serious problem
cutting mto the dairy farmer’s
profits.
Automatic milk take-offs also
help maintain sanitation, besides
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