Improvements and alterations to the County Farms Estate

The County Farms Estate in Dorset is made up of approximately 64 farms, mostly specialist dairy farms.  As part of the management of the estate, improvement and alteration works are undertaken.  The following pages show a selection of projects undertaken on the County Farms Estate.

• Crackmoor Farm, Oborne

  The provision of a new cubicle house for 136 cows and a young stock building.

• Rewhead Farm, Buckland Newton

  Excavation and construction of a compound to take the herd's production of slurry over the winter period.

• Eastbrook Farm, Shillingstone

  The provision of a stockbuilding alongside the existing cattle house with undercover feeding.

• Burley Road Farm, Handley Common

  The construction of a parlour/dairy building with undercover collecting yard, a slurry lagoon and an underground silage effluent tank.