Caldermeade Farm dairy
At Caldermeade Farm up to 400 Holstein cows are milked twice daily (4.30am and 3.30 pm). Two operators take approximately one hour and twenty minutes to complete the process, each cow being on the rotary milking platform for about 10 minutes. The whole operation can be watched from a comfortable, glass fronted viewing room and provides a good insight into the workings of a modern dairy farm.
While the mechanics of milking cows have not altered significantly from the days of hand milking, modern dairies are dramatically different having transitioned from milking parlors with wooden back-out stalls; walk through dairies and herringbones to today’s preferred method – the rotary dairy. Milk comes from a cow – not a carton!
Some frequently asked questions about the dairy are answered here
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