Supply chain issues and a tornado slowed dairy farm upgrade

A central Wisconsin dairy farm needed more time to make the change from stanchions to milking robots.

Dennis Roehl tells Brownfield there were supply chain issues that slowed the retrofitting of their free-stall barn and the installation of four robots. “We were supposed to be milking January 1st (in the new facility) We just started three weeks ago so it has been a long time coming here and we still don’t have all of the parts in the milkhouse that we still need yet.”

There were some delays when construction crews were diverted to repair other properties after a December tornado, but the Roehl’s say touring other farms and settling on a design took longer than the construction.

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