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Withrow DairyFacility StatisticsThere are many elements throughout the dairy that are just part of every day life on a dairy. However, because of the size of the facility and the number of head that are milked there every day, some of the statistics are a little unbelievable when you compare them to our everyday life. Check out the Facility Tour section under the Dairy Tour tab for photos of the facility. The cows at Withrow Dairy can drink up to 50 gallons of water each day and may make as many as 30 trips to the water trough every day. There are 50 troughs strategically placed throughout the dairy site. A dairy of this size can use over 400,000 gallons of water in a single day during the hot summer months. This storage tank can hold over 500,000 gallons of water and stands over 45 feet tall.
There is over 15,000 feet of fencing throughout the facility -- that's over 15 miles of cable. The dairy consists of a total of 4 barns, 3 large and 1 small. Each of the large barns has over 800 yards of concrete, 230 columns to support the roof structure, and 1,120 cow stanchions. The barns are 1,180 feet long and 100 feet wide which gives the cows a total of 118,000 square feet of shade. There is almost 3 miles of sewer pipe that run throughout the 317 acres. We have a Boumatic double 45 parallel in the parlor which enables us to milk 90 cows at one time. Underneath the milking pit is a full-size climate controlled basement which houses a majority of the milking equipment. The parlor building also houses two 15,000-gallon milk storage tanks, the largest in Arizona at the time of installation. The 7-bay commodity barn is the central location for feed storage and mixing.
Beginnings...Withrow Dairy "the dream" has become Withrow Dairy "the reality". Work on the dairy project started in 1999 with preliminary ideas, sketches and the purchase of 104 acres. That 104 acres turned into 317, the ideas and sketches turned into blueprints and specifications. From that point, there was no stopping Withrow Dairy! Whenever you start a project, you need to record the "before" image. This is the site at sunset the day the stakes were placed into the ground.
The first earth moving took place on February 17, 2000 and the first cow was milked at the facility on December 12, 2000. It took 10 months of hard work and planning to reach the goal of milking by December 2000 -- something we're told was quite an accomplishment in the dairy start-up world!
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Withrow Dairy
Dairy Location 29700 Peters Road ~ Casa Grande AZ 85293 (520) 424-3100 office ~ (520) 424-9692 (fax)
California Office 503 Spanish Bay Court ~ Roseville CA 95747 (916) 780-0364 (office) ~ (916) 780-0374 (fax)
Email with questions or comments to info@withrowdairy.com
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