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June 10, 2020
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Josie Sellers
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that takes care of cleaning the walkways
of manure six times a day. They also
have a robot that pushes feed to the
cows.
Kyle Daugherty said the barn was
designed to milk up to 600 cows. They
were milking 132 and just hit 200 on
June 4. “If Sam (his wife) and I have
kids, we will be able to milk enough for
all our families,” he said. “This barn will
be able to carry us through our entire
life.”
Kyle Daugherty said he enjoys
grain farming too, but you can only
go so far with it. He felt his family had
more opportunities to grow in the dairy
industry. The new barn, however, also
does help them with the grain side of
the business. With the robots they don’t
have to stop working in the fields to
milk the cows.
“We would not have done all this
without someone younger coming in,”
Bill Daugherty said. “In five years we
might have gotten out. This was a huge
investment.”
The family plans to hold an open
house later this summer.
Beds of sand are enjoyed by cows at the Daugherty Dairy Farm.
Josie Sellers