Property Details

Kroes Dairy North – Tipton, CA

• Location

• Property is located at 8509 Ave 152, Tipton, CA 93272.

• Size

• +/-314.05 Assessed Acres

  • +/-207.80 Acres of Irrigated Open Land.
  • +/-95 Acres of dairy site.
  • +/-11.43 Acres of farmstead site and avenues.

• Permits

• The permits for the dairy are as follows:

  • Air Maximum – Mature Cows: 3,140
  • Air Maximum – Milking Cows: 2,600
  • Air Maximum – Dry Cows: 540
  • Air Maximum – Support Stock: 2,600
  • RWQCB – Mature Cows: 2,979
  • County (Animal Units or Animals): 1,800

• Stanchions

• +/-3,200 milk and dry cow stanchions and +/-1,875 heifer stanchions.

• Dairy Improvements

• The dairy includes a double 32 herringbone milk parlor with 64 Westfalia Surge Dome 55 milking machines, two (2) 7,000 gallon DCI stainless steel milk tanks, maternity barn, close up, special needs, and hospital pens; milk cow pens; dry cow pens; heifer pens; heifer corrals; two (2) hay barns, commodity barn, shop, dairy lagoon, separation ponds, and feed-silage storage slabs.

• Water

• Property is located in Lower Tule River Irrigation District and Lower Tule River Irrigation District GSA. There are two (2) on-site pumps and two (2) large Ag wells (one (1) – 250 HP and one (1) – 200 HP). The dairy also has wastewater lagoons.

• Home

• There is a +/-4,880 sq.ft. single-family home with an attached +/-1,250 sq.ft. four-car garage and a pool.

• Soil

• Property has +/-100% Grade 1 – Excellent soils.

  +/-61.2% Colpien loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes.

  +/-38.8% Akers-Akers, saline-Sodic, complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes.

• Zoning

• Property is zoned AE-40. (Exclusive Agricultural with a 40-acre minimum parcel size.)

• Legal

• Tulare County APN: 228-250-001 and 228-250-012

• Groundwater Disclosure

• The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires groundwater basins to be sustainable by 2040. SGMA requires a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) by 2020. Said plans may limit ground water pumping. For more information please visit the SGMA web site at www.sgma.water.ca.gov/portal/ .