Blue Star Dairy Farms

Blue Star Dairy Farms has been family owned and operated for several generations. The farm was firstestablished by William and Dorothy Meinholz in 1946. They later sold the farm to the next two generations. Currently, Blue Star Dairy Farms is a family partnership between two third generation brothers, Craig and Brian Meinholz, along with Jim Hahn, who started working for the farm at the age of 14 and recently became a partner. The fourth generation is showing interest in the farm industry as well, with multiple alreadycompleting college and returning to the farm. Blue Star Dairy Farms has two locations and milks around 2,100 holstein cows. The De Forest farm milks 900 cowsand the Arlington farm milks 1,200 cows. Calving and raising of replacement young stock for both farms is done at the De Forest location. All cows arehoused in free stall barns with sand bedded stalls. The heifer calves are housed in naturally ventilated calfbarns until they are moved to open front bedding pack barns at 2-3 months of age. The remaining heifersare in free stall barns until entering the milking herd. ​Cows are milked three times a day in Germania Herringbone style parlors. De Forest is a double-16 and Arlington is a double-18 parlor. The De Forest and Arlington parlors are equipped with Afi Milk Weighing System which monitors each cow’s daily milk weights, activity, and conductivity along with numerous otherfunctions. © 2025 by Blue Star Dairy Farms Powered and secured by Wix