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Clefthaven Farms is the first dairy project that we feature and their farm is proudly included on our home page. The Fried Family presented our Corporate family an opportunity to help them put together a display of leading edge technology for their new 120 cow robotic milking facility. Faromor has developed various products and product combinations to provide integrated solutions for the Clefthaven Farms operations.
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The Fried Family
Orville, Ruth, Kevin, Bradley, Brian & Darrell Fried

 
 


Welcome to Clefthaven Farms
Plattsville, Ontario

Clefthaven Farms is a partnership of Orville and Ruth Fried with their four sons: Kevin, Bradley, Brian & Darrell Fried.

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Stonecrest Engineering
 

Stonecrest Engineering provides professional engineering services which cater specifically to the agriculture industry. Their staff work with farm business owners and/or their builders to develop practical, environmentally sound site plans and on-farm structures that address current and future regulations. More

 


 

 
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288 Cow milked at two facilities: 188 milked in a DeLaval all-exit double12 milking parlor. 88 milked by two DeLaval VMS milking robots.

 
 

Bradley & Darrell manage the herd milked with the DeLaval all-exit double12 milking parlor. Brian and Kevin manage the herd milked with the DeLaval VMS milking robots.

 
 

Crops grown include: corn, barley, wheat, soybeans and alfalfa for feed; some of acreage is used for cash cropping.

 
 

Fieldwork responsibilities are divided evenly among all partners.

 
 

All partners gather every morning for a meeting to discuss business items as well as any plans/objectives/priorities for the day, an exercise valued for years.

 
 

3 generations of the Fried Family active in plowing competitions at the County, Provincial, National and World levels. Brian and Darrell have represented Canada at the World Plowing Championships, 7 and 3 times respectively.

 
 

In 2002 the Fried's received the Oxford County Agricultural Award of Excellence for Farm Family of the Year 2002.

 
       
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