Fair Oaks Farms shares dairy farming practices with the public
Fair Oaks Farms is operated by members of the Select Milk Producers dairy cooperative. Through tours and interactive exhibits, the farm educates visitors about farming practices. The farm “campus” includes The Dairy Adventure, The Pig Adventure and The Crop Adventure.
Photos by Vito Palmisano
NONE
Fair Oaks Farms on Interstate 65 in northwest Indiana, welcomes half-a-million visitors a year.
NONE
Visitors to the farm can see educational exhibits, a restaurant, a birthing barn and a milking parlor.
NONE
The Dairy Adventure has interactive exhibits, a museum and a movie theater.
NONE
In the birthing barn, visitors can watch a cow give birth.
Feed components
Feed components are carefully measured and loaded into a hopper.
NONE
In the barn, cows have access to food all day long. They rest on sand beds.
NONE
Cows walk from their barn to the milking parlor.
NONE
Cows are milked on a carousel. The process takes about 8 minutes.
NONE
Methane from manure is converted to clean-burning compressed natural gas. All of the trucks on the farm are powered by CNG.