Cherryland Dairy Farm’s 1.5-Million-Gallon Concrete Waste Storage Tank

For more than a century, the Henschel family has adapted its Door County farm to keep the operation moving forward.

Cherryland Dairy Farm’s roots date back to 1902, when Ed and Mary Henschel established the family farm on 80 acres. According to a Wisconsin Life profile of the Henschel family, the farm has remained in the family for generations and has grown into a diversified agricultural operation that includes dairy and crop production, along with several other enterprises.

As the farm continued investing in infrastructure to support its day-to-day operations, Pipping Concrete constructed a round concrete waste storage tank in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, measuring 146 feet in diameter with 12-foot-tall walls and approximately 1.5 million gallons of capacity.

Challenge: Waste Storage for a Busy, Diversified Farm

Cherryland Dairy is a working family operation with a lot of moving pieces. In addition to dairy and crop production, the Henschel family has built a diversified agricultural business over several generations.

Managing manure is one part of that larger daily workload, making dependable storage infrastructure an important piece of keeping farm operations organized.

The project called for a substantial waste storage system that could reliably contain manure while giving the farm greater flexibility in how storage fits into fieldwork, weather, crop needs, and other responsibilities throughout the year.

Solution: 1.5 Million Gallons of Concrete Waste Storage

Pipping Concrete constructed a round concrete waste storage tank designed around the demands of an active agricultural operation. The durable structure provides substantial storage capacity to accommodate daily farm workflows.

For agricultural operations, storage capacity is about more than simply having somewhere for manure to go. Adequate storage gives farms more control over when manure moves out of the tank, helping manure management better align with field conditions, crop needs, weather, and available labor.

The completed structure gives the Henschel family expanded room to coordinate manure handling alongside the many other responsibilities of running a diversified farm.