Trevor Barfoote (owner of Barfoote Construction) has a passion for dairy farming and owns several farms in New Zealand and the USA. With over 30yrs experience in designing and building specialised milking dairy Sheds, plus a lifetime of living and working in and around farms, Trevor knows first-hand what farmers want and what they are looking for. Barfoote constructions precast concrete solutions offer the lowest possible maintenance and running costs on the market. We also work around the dairy farming calendar to minimise the impact that upgrade works can have on an operational farm.
We work with the farmer to maximise the value of the investment and can leverage significant experience in running, optimising, and constructing dairy solutions. If you are thinking about building or upgrading, we can provide helpful advice to get the best results, by looking at the lie of the farm to select the best flow, with the minimum amount of earthworks.
Having built numerous milking sheds locally throughout New Zealand and overseas, in South America and Europe, we now have a name synonymous with the best, and most innovative herringbone and rotary style milking sheds in the world. Sheds built by Barfoote Construction, are seen as the reference site for the dairy industry.
Rotary Cow Sheds
Our rotary cow sheds are designed for the requirements of the high producing dairy farmer, who wants to reduce labour expenditure, and time spent in the cow shed. Choose from a range of the standard portal designs or be a little more adventurous, and consider the modern curved concrete arch option which offers increased space. The buildings are extremely robust, functional and low maintenance. They remain extremely appealing to the eye, the curves seem to hug the landscape and blend in as though they have always been there. Not to mention that they are also surprisingly affordable.
Herringbone Sheds
Barfoote Construction Herringbone Milking Sheds are cost effective, our design is simple, and economically suited to a farm that milks 100 – 400 cows. We can easily tailor to suit your own requirements.
Weep Walls
We have put a great deal of effort and thought behind the design of our weep wall systems, to make sure they perform at maximum efficiency, and last the distance.
The use of vertical slits over horizontal designs and physical slit width used in combination with the length of the settlement pond, allows the materials to separate naturally by distance. Therefore, by the time they reach the weep wall, they are in three separate states, (floating top fibre material, middle green water section and bottom sludge); thus allowing the green water to drain from the system, rather than clogging the system.
Advantages of our weep walls
- No power required
- No stone trap required
- Many installations have green water straight though to pivot irrigation
- Precast construction means lower costs
- Concrete construction
- No rotting or bulging like other systems on the market
- Low Maintenance
- Longevity
Feed Pads / Troughs
Barfoote Construction design and build cattle feed pads to suit the client’s requirements. Each design is customised to suit existing and future requirements on the farm.
Options include standalone feed pad slabs, feed pads with roof structures (typically steel portal with timber roof or pole and timber construction) and we supply and install extras, including customised gates, feed troughs, water troughs and steel post and rail cattle barriers.
Power Wash
Barfoote Construction also design and install systems using recycled cowshed effluent to flood wash the feed pad.
Concrete Raceways
Improve mobility, cleanliness and health with this simple upgrade.
Cattle Underpasses
Hot favourite with farmers to enhance the efficiency and safety of working farms.
