Mark Warpole, awarded "The Best Dairy Farm of the Year" spoke to the club about his dairy farm.
Parents bought a farm in 1978 with dream of eventually milking 200 cows. In 1987 built a rotary dairy and milked 230 cows. In 2012 Mark and Kate visited the USA inspecting dairies and gathering ideas, returning and taking over three farms. Returned to the USA in 2019 inspecting farms and methods.
In 2021 built new dairy and in 2022 started construction of two barns, each housing 1,000 cows in free stall system.
Milking 2,000 cows three times a day, commencing at 2.30am, second milking at 11am and final milking 7pm.
Family work on the farm which employs 38.
Plans for a third barn to increase to 3,000 cows.