Meadowstar Dairy

As we work with our clients to build an understanding of their business needs, we collaborate with them and evolve their new building design to match the innovation they seek. This collaboration played out in the design of this project, Meadowstar Dairy for our client, Riverview LLP, in 882,000 sq. ft. dedicated to the business of dairy.

[@rockychill92]

love it ... every one need like this Dairy

[@cooldog60]

All I can say is AMAZING,AMAZING,AMAZING!

[@saskdutchkid]

Impressive dairy farm! I want to come tour it!

[@mickoostingh5777]

SaskDutch Kid is someone in your family dutch

[@lancaster5808]

You have an amazing one too!! An also, your videos are awesome! Nice work

[@IONLYPLAYCODFTW]

Do you not think your farm is enough of a factory farm ruining it for the small guys

[@jheidecker6247]

Lucky for me i could ride my bike to it if i wanted

[@yegmtb8377]

@@IONLYPLAYCODFTW actually his is small compared to whats our there or medium sized i would say. He cares for his cows and has a great setup ive watched plenty of his videos

[@tntcattle6246]

Wwwooo that is the biggest barn I have ever seen in my entire life! That’s awesome! Those cows are clean too for being a 8,000+ cow dairy

[@shahhassan5550]

i love dairy animals and love to work with them and it will be pleasure for me to work with such organizations 😍

[@ferdinandvanloggerenberg5111]

What always get to me is the amount of negativity from everyone watching these videos if you always gonna be negative don't watch it that's the first thing secondly what makes me wonder about the negatives is they still buy the dairy products and will always be the first to complain if there is nothing available.

[@raulpelayo4719]

It calls frustration because they have all that beautiful business and they dont have nothing

[@santoslopezdelgado5276]

Amazing!! 👍🏼

[@nestof6042]

pretty boy named off everyone but the damn LABOR !!! id like to see you white collars do what we do all day just give us some damn credit !!!!

[@milesboehmer9969]

From Minnesota ,how do you deal with snow on the roof ?

[@crazyhass84]

roof doesn't look very steep... especially for Minnesota! how does it handle the snow loads?! What is the advantage of 1 massive barn vs just 2 beside each other? Look at the 30 massive fans they had to add at the end of the barn to help with air flow.

[@bobaganooshy]

Andy Hass these barns are cross ventilated, one entire side of the barn is solid fans, much easier to keep cool

[@Lesterbuildings1947]

All of our buildings are engineered for the local snow and wind loads. Our engineers designed beefy connections to accommodate the conditions.

[@samkom33]

Andy Hass. i wouldnt worry to much about snow if i had 8500 cows below.. they make a ton of heat. melting the snow. hehe. but with all that roof area i wounder why they dont use solar panels on the roof making the fans run when its summer and hot.

[@davidw4970]

Impressive scale of set up. Sadly however, it's these mega-dairies and feedlot beef enterprises that are giving weight to the movement toward plant based agenda. The marketing coming out of the likes of Oatly is seriously questionable, and the health and environmental claims are concerning given the reality of plant based "milk" products. Dairy has it's place, and the scale is only required for the business to be sustainable/profitable. The welfare concerns are solely the responsibility of the supermarkets, having used milk as a footfall driver and made it a race to the bottom which can only be countered by scale. Consumers should get themselves informed, and the campaigns should be geared toward increasing milk price at the farm gate so operations don't need to run at this scale and have AYR housed livestock. Again - impressive set up, but these operations have their days numbered and are self defeating fuelling the consumer image concerns for the sector. Real shame.

[@oscarjohansson79]

But it wouldn't really work if we went back to the higher prices. Imagine farms like these having twice the price for their milk. They would either become millionaires or buy up even more farms. I think it's hard to go back to how it was before

[@davidw4970]

@@oscarjohansson79 Certainly presents a challenge Oscar. Would be consumer driven, so a stocking cap would work well. Max. 250 milking +dry/follower as a welfare standard. (?) I wouldn’t see the large setups remaining, driven out/back to size to sit at/under a max herd cap. Sounds backwards, but may we’ll be the only safeguard long term for dairy (liquid milk rather than cheese/products markets),

[@oscarjohansson79]

@@davidw4970Yep it's probably the long term solution but we'll probably need new regulations for it to work

[@pranayparab3043]

Beautiful

[@gregor00005]

2:10 what are those houses for? Offices?

[@mws8025]

On site employee living

[@meirbekleker9956]

Базара нет

[@MultiSwatts]

Can't believe you built it out of timber in the UK that wouldn't last 20 years without it rotting constantly build it out of galvanized steel it will last forever

[@nf1204]

Dry climate.

[@henrymadigan101]

1/4 mile long barn sick

[@anaru2]

wooden pillars???

[@malcolmchapman3032]

It's surprising to use a timber frame instead of steel

[@tf7274]

Steel sweats at -35....with all the moisture...wood dries out...metal rusts.

[@user-bb4ud7nv5j]

👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

[@gemser24]

Be interesting to see how many of thees mags dairy’s actually use American workers or they all migrant workers caus they get them even cheaper

[@hans-friedrichgravekarsten5616]

👍 👍 👍 👍 Schöne Grüße aus driefel bei zetel in Friesland 🇩🇪 Deutschland 🇩🇪 viel Spaß und Erfolg im neuen Stall

[@thorbenufermann5624]

Wie viele kühe gehen darein

[@hans-friedrichgravekarsten5616]

@@thorbenufermann5624 2500KUHE

[@brammanuel2829]

Thanks, I'll just stick to my good ol' 120 cows.

[@clintondall9416]

Employee Housing on-site?

[@mehdelriolarios7920]

Which vehicle appears in the minute 1:20?

[@Lesterbuildings1947]

The machine sucks up all of the manure, and takes it to a separator, that separates the liquid from the solids. The solids are then reused as bedding for the cows. The liquid is stored in lagoons and neighboring farmers use it on their crops.

[@mehdelriolarios7920]

What is the name of the vehicle manufacturer? Thank you

[@Lesterbuildings1947]

I don't know. It belongs to the dairy; we built the building.

[@archwaydairy]

It is a manure vacuum truck

[@friedemann7369]

Company named MENSCH Manufacturing

[@10thgenerationdairyman31]

Cool

[@adrianodonovan5342]

Why no steel frame all that timber makes no sense to me all those columns

[@stuartluig2911]

It is cheaper and works just as good.

[@krol960920]

,, Mają rozmach..."

[@RideauLakesFarm]

The American way... Why do you have to milk 8500 cows? You wonder why you have way too much milk in the USA. Always over producing

[@samwaterlander8120]

that's their choice to milk 8500 cows besides coops prefer bigger farms because they can get cheaper milk then make more money and screw dairy farmers in the process

[@user-zu2bw7ig5v]

Greed. Riverview has hundred of thousands of cows it's a cartel.

[@josephsprague484]

Reminds me of a factory farm tbh ...

[@jasonrhodes7047]

Must be they don't get much snow there.

[@steveg1649]

Lester, impressive building, shame the trolls took over the comment section.

[@tekincam37]

SÜPPPER

[@randyspicer5550]

Look how big I am 🤪Gee I can’t figure out why milk prices suck .

[@scottbigger6204]

another mega farm putting 25 small family farms out of business !! way to go lester !!!

[@natureswaylawncare3346]

Scott Bigger this mega farm started small and grew and grew and grew... its called capitalism. I’m sympathetic to the small farmers but mega farms started small once upon a time too.

[@chickenfryer]

Thanks for the video! That's not a farm, its a factory. Poor cows! Keep feeding them the fine GMO products. Greets from my friend, his name is 'Cancer'

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

I work on a smaller farm and this seems like a good place for cows. Not the best, but far from the worst. This seems like a fantastic barn for how many head are under it. Unbelievably clean and The sides are wide open so there's tons of light coming in.

[@yo6488]

Gmo stands for genetically modified organism . All done by selective breeding . Anything domesticated is a gmo. House cats , dogs ,etc. are gmos .

[@yo6488]

+Adam Brydon threw is no link to gmos and cancer .

[@justinwhite2813]

chickenfryer they grow non GMOs grains too u can't look at ever big farms said they use GMOs u don't no .

[@user-uc6zp2bl9o]

USA 🇺🇲😍😍😍💪💪😍💪😍

[@yegmtb8377]

Its nice and all but when you have PR doing the videos where the realness the actual farmer or real workers not this suit n tie crap as an Albertan I'm all for having a high quality dairy farms it gives me pride knowing that their are farmers who love their cows and attend to each and everyone of them but at 8,500 how do you do it. What is the environment like for those animals are they happy do they have the ability to free roam. I believe that a free roam cow is a happy cow.

[@mateuszmadaj9425]

Gnji

[@jonathanmcaleece9834]

People will look at this factory farm and complain it’s not natural etc etc. The harsh reality is consumers want to pay less and less and less for their food so the market produces it for less this is what the consumer wants. You won’t pay for a small family farm where cows graze green grass therefore stop whining when farmers adapt and scale up into big business to survive. If you really care about how your food is produced be it high welfare,family farm set ups, grazing cows or whatever go and PAY FOR IT, otherwise just keep quiet and thank a farmer that puts food on you’re table at a relative low cost.

[@randyspicer5550]

Thank a farmer lol - you mean thank a people manager that sets behind a computer 💻.

[@jonathanmcaleece9834]

@@randyspicer5550 it’s the same thing. In a farm this size someone has their own job.

[@alanirishkelly6704]

This is disgraceful those cows never leave the shed 3rd world farming etics

[@codydoorn376]

Alan Irish Kelly no they do not when they are out of lactation they are not in the barn they are outside

[@paulthompson5968]

Huh? Oh shut-up...

[@mattw3904]

@Alan Irish Kelly The cows love it that way. What would you say if they roamed free all the way to your yard and took some shits in your yard. Oh, then all of a sudden they would need to be confined again.

[@deannelson9565]

@@mattw3904 first off you're an idiot! Second off I work with cows and even I got to say not letting the cows outside is a little bit of b*******! Those cows are locked up pretty much the entire time that's not overly cool.

[@mattw3904]

@@deannelson9565 If you actually worked with cows, you would not have given the comment. First off, if they are confined to the inside, you have a better way of controlling the environment. Keeping flies and flees off them, keeping them cool in the summer out of the hot sun, and keep them from freezing in the winter. You need to get educated more.

[@abbymiller5096]

Disgusting life for the cows ! All about profit sickening.

[@whitneya.6930]

Abby Miller Why do you assume they suffer? Because they're indoors? Surely you don't live out in the woods...

[@cooldog60]

You are a disgusting person!