Highland Dairy Plans for the Future
Rena Johnson plans to dairy for decades now that she can milk more cows and harvest more milk with her DeLaval parlor P500.
Highland Dairy
Farm location
Glade Spring, VirginiaHerd size
600"The P500 is just so much better for us for throughput and efficiency, and we've gained an additional five pounds of milk. The cows really love the barn, and that tickles me to see them in there."
For more than 70 years, the Johnsons have been milking cows at Highland Dairy in Glade Spring, Virginia. Third-generation dairywoman, Rena Johnson runs the farm now and recently decided to upgrade the dairy so she could milk cows for decades to come.
She has seen faster cow throughput, increased milk production and improved comfort for cows and employees since installing a double-16 DeLaval P500 Parlor.
Other DeLaval solutions that Highland Dairy has implemented include: DelPro™ Farm Manager, DeLaval Activity meters, DelPro™ Companion, DeLaval CWC 90 Chiller Direct Load Cooling, DeLaval M6D-71 Plate Heat Exchanger, DeLaval Smooth Operator speed control, DeLaval LVP 4500 vacuum pump, DeLaval MM27BC milk meter, DeLaval MPC680 milking point and DeLaval DSG10 Sort System.