Agriculture and Dairy farming supply

Trevor Barfoote (owner) has a passion for dairy farming and owned and operates several farms in NZ and the USA.  With over 24yrs experience in designing and building specialised, Milking/Dairy Sheds and a lifetime of living and working in and around farms, he knows first-hand what farmers want are what they are looking for.  Barfoote’s precast concrete solutions offer the lowest possible maintenance and running costs on the market.  Barfoote also works around the dairy farming calendar to minimise the impact that upgrade works can have on an operational farm.

Barfoote works with the farmer to maximize the value of the investment and can leverage significant experience in running, optimising and constructing dairy solutions.  If you are thinking about upgrading or building to get Barfoote's on-board early in your plans, as often, during a site visit, they can provide helpful advice on how 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, Barboote’s now have a name synonymous with the best and most innovative herringbone and rotary style milking sheds in the world.  Barfoote’s sheds are seen as the reference site for the dairy industry.

Barfoote's are happy to arrange a tour or site visit to any completed cowshed and are more than happy to introduce prospective clients to any of their existing clients to discuss design, quality of construction and service.

Whether you are trying to build a basic herringbone or a fully spec’d out rotary with all the bells, whistles and mod-cons Barfoote can provide effective solutions even if you are trying to build a dairy goat shed or sheep shed Barfoote has done them all where ever you are operating out of.  

Barfoote Rotary Cowsheds are designed for the requirements of the high producing dairy farmer, who wants to reduce labour expenditure and time spent in the cowshed.  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.

Barfoote Herringbone Milking Sheds are cost effective. Barfootes design is simple and economically suited to a farm that milks 100 - 400 cows. Barfoote’s herringbone can easily be tailored to suit your own requirements.

Barfoote have put a great deal of effort and thought behind the design of their 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.

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Barfoote Construction design and build cattle feedpads to suit the client’s requirements. Each design is customized to suit existing and future requirements on the farm.

Options include stand alone feedpad slabs, feedpads with roof structures (typically steel portal with timber roof or pole and timber construction) and we supply and install extras, including customized gates, feed troughs, water troughs and steel post and rail cattle barriers.

Barfoote Construction also design and install systems using recycled cowshed effluent to flood wash the feedpad.

Improve mobility, cleanliness and health with this simple upgrade.

Hot favourite with farmers to enhance the efficiency and safety of working farms.

Barfoote Construction manufactures a range of farm products to improve the lives of everyday kiwi farmers.  Manufacturing out of concrete means that they will last the test of time and only need minimal maintenance.

• Feed Troughs

• Water Troughs

• Loading ramps 

• Ramps

• Stairs