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When thinking about achieving cow comfort, our focus at VES revolves around the engineering, design, and layout of fans, lighting, soaking technology, and high-pressure fogging within a barn. Those elements comprise the core of what we do, but it’s not everything.

Consider this: 88 percent of milk consists of water, so ensuring plenty of fresh drinking water is available to cows at all times is a key to any successful cooling strategy. On average, a cow consumes anywhere between

In a perfect world, every barn would be a new build where ventilation could be entered into the formula throughout the design, engineering, and building process. That fantasy, as you may have guessed, sure isn’t what we at VES work with on a day-in-day-out basis. 

The reality is that a large swath of the ventilation consultations and installations we do at VES are actually retrofits – making changes and adjustments to existing buildings to achieve &