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A dairy farm in Michigan’s Thumb region has been leveled by the severe weather that swept through late Monday night. Seven possible tornadoes touched down throughout Michigan Monday. The National Weather Service is currently surveying the damage that ranges across the Lower Peninsula from Kalamazoo to the Thumb. Severe winds have left in its wake power outages, down trees and crop damage.
de Vor Dairy, a 3,500-cow dairy farm near Decker in northeast Michigan was destroyed by a tornado at 11 a.m. Eastern time today. The farm lost the majority of their barns including a new building that completed construction early in the day. No people were injured. About 40 cows died in the storm. Hundreds of volunteers and neighboring farmers have stepped up to help temporarily house and milk the stranded cows, less than 40 were reported killed by the storms. Neighbors were working frantically to pick up, house and milk the surviving animals. “By 1 o’clock, we had cows going out to neighbors,” says John Shepherd, a Devor Dairy employee. Two new barns were destroyed, and the windows of the milking parlor were blown out.
