Eight years of continuous dairy livestock and crop production on flat Jasper County tillable ground.
John Smith founded Front Range Farms in 2018 to link disciplined dairy herd breeding with on-farm crop forage balance.
Located at 9451 N State Road 10 in DeMotte, Indiana, Front Range Farms is not an absentee agricultural fund or a livestock sales barn. It is an owner-operated dairy and crop enterprise running under active USDA Farm Service Agency Producer #12345 credentials and Indiana Farm Bureau membership. Every cow we transfer ($1,500–$2,500/head) and every machinery crew we dispatch ($14.93–$22.00/hour) reflects our commitment to agronomic balance and mechanical integrity.
Physical farmstead premises and livestock barns in DeMotte, Indiana 46310-8830.
Operational Identity and Physical Farmstead Premise
Frontrangefarms, trading publicly at frontrangefarms.com and locally as Front Range Farms, is a commercial agricultural business registered in the State of Indiana. The physical operational farmstead is situated at 9451 N STATE ROAD 10, DEMOTTE, IN 46310-8830, DEMOTTE, IN, United States.
Our agricultural facilities in Jasper County include free-stall dairy livestock barns, concrete feed bunks, an active parallel milking parlor, a sanitary milkhouse with refrigerated bulk milk cooling storage tanks, equipment maintenance bays, and perimeter-fenced forage acreage. We do not operate virtual brokerages or third-party drop-shipping operations. Every animal offered resides on our DeMotte acreage or on managed partner pastures subject to our health inspection protocols.
John Smith has managed dairy herds and row-crop acreage across Northwest Indiana since 2018. Having trained on commercial Holstein bloodlines and precision equipment platforms, John established Front Range Farms around a single principle: dairy herd productivity is inseparable from soil health and forage self-sufficiency.
Rather than pushing cattle on high-grain diets in overcrowded confinement, John implemented a closed forage-to-manure nutrient loop. He manages daily parlor milking rotations, schedules seasonal TMR feed wagon operations, and operates utility tractors, grain drills, and field sprayers across our DeMotte fields.
Dairy cattle breeding and contract agricultural machinery labor executed to measurable standards.
What Front Range Farms Does: Verified Agricultural Operations
Front Range Farms concentrates exclusively on two commercial agricultural operations in Northwest Indiana:
1. Dairy Livestock Transfers
We raise, condition, and transfer verified commercial dairy cattle—specifically milking cows and replacement heifers—priced transparently at $1,500 to $2,500 USD per head. Pricing is governed by audited individual milk yield records, somatic cell count (SCC) history, parity, structural correctness, and confirmed parallel milking parlor adaptability.
2. Contract Labor & Machinery
We deliver contract farm labor in Indiana and skilled equipment operators billed at $14.93 to $22.00 USD per hour. Coverage includes parallel parlor milking shifts, refrigerated bulk milk cooling tank CIP sanitation, TMR feed mixer wagon loading, tractor seedbed tillage, grain drill seeding, and self-propelled field spraying.
What a customer compares on when evaluating Front Range Farms against livestock dealers or broker networks:
- Confirmed Herd Health Records: We do not buy unknown cattle from auction rings to flip. Every head carries documented vaccination histories, negative Johnes and BVD testing, and individual DHIA lactation curves.
- Direct Machinery Proficiency: Our crew members understand PTO operating angles, high-pressure hydraulic connections, clean-in-place dairy acid rinses, and seed depth calibration.
- Agronomic Stocking Discipline: We do not overstock our Jasper County land base. Our stocking philosophy mandates 1.5 to 2.0 tillable acres per dairy cow to sustain homegrown forage and prevent soil nutrient overload.
The agronomic benchmark that preserves herd nutrition and environmental compliance.
Our 1.5 to 2.0 Acre Forage Philosophy
Modern dairy operations often run into severe financial distress by buying imported feed or concentrating too many animals on minimal land, leading to manure disposal crises. At Front Range Farms, we operate on a strict stocking ratio of 1.5 to 2.0 tillable acres of dedicated forage ground per milking cow.
Here is why this operational ratio governs our farmstead:
- Dry Matter Self-Sufficiency: In Jasper County soils, 1.5 to 2.0 acres provides sufficient land to grow high-tonnage silage corn, multi-cut alfalfa, and winter rye forage. This guarantees our herd consumes feed grown under our direct management, avoiding unpredictable commercial hay prices.
- Balanced Nitrogen & Phosphorus Uptake: Dairy cows produce valuable organic manure. Spreading dairy slurry across 1.5 to 2.0 acres per head ensures that growing crops absorb available nitrogen and phosphorus at natural agronomic rates, protecting local Kankakee Valley water tables.
- Ration Consistency in the TMR: Blending our own corn silage and alfalfa haylage in horizontal TMR feed mixer wagons ensures consistent bunk dry matter day after day, stabilizing cow rumen pH and preventing milk fat depression.
Reach John Smith and farm dispatch directly during operational yard hours.
Direct Operator Contact and Human Dispatch
We do not route callers to overseas call centers or automated phone trees. When you contact Front Range Farms, you speak directly with John Smith or our lead farm dispatch crew:
Telephone Dispatch
Direct yard and dispatch line: (219) 987-7808
Phones are answered between 5:00 AM and 6:30 PM CST Monday through Saturday. If we are in the milking parlor or operating tractor machinery in the field, leave a voicemail with your name, phone number, and herd or labor requirements. Calls are returned within 4 hours during working days.
Electronic Mail & Data Requests
General inquiries, livestock health records, and statutory data requests: [email protected]
Email is reviewed daily morning and evening. Under our legal data retention commitment, statutory consumer data requests received at this email address are acknowledged and answered within 7 days.
Farmstead Yard Address
9451 N STATE ROAD 10
DEMOTTE, IN 46310-8830
United States
Commercial livestock inspections and equipment orientation require advance appointments to ensure biosecurity and milking parlor sanitation compliance.