installations

To the Gallos, building a productive farm with responsibility for the future means achieving a healthy win-win balance between
operating profits and concern for and protection of the environment. The company executes a strategy that emphasizes intelligent
management of the land, the plant facilities, and all waste from the dairy and farming operations. Over 2,000 acres of productive
land has been set aside as a perpetual conservation easement. This restored system featuring wildlife compatible crops is
providing critical habitat for ducks, cranes, egret, hawks, bald eagles, and several thousand arctic nesting geese and other
migratory bird species. Joseph Farms and Michael D. Gallo are nationally recognized for their environmental stewardship.
In 2005, Joseph Gallo Dairy Farms began a program of remodeling all milking barns to incorporate the latest innovations in milking
technology. Under the guidance of the dairy herdsman, Joe Teixiera, with over 20 years of work in growing the dairy, Joseph Gallo
Dairy Farms selected BECO Dairy Automation to meet their milking needs. With a demand to milk large numbers of cows quickly
through their parlors, equipment reliability was very important in their selection. The first dairy is complete and operating very well
and now achieving a Somatic Cell Count average of less than 150,000.

The BECO Dairy Automation installed at Joseph Gallo Bear Creek Dairy Farm includes:
- 128 BECO FlowNexus milking monitoring takeoffs
- 128 BECO ScanNexus flow - through milk meters
- 128 BECO PulsNexus pulsation monitors and recorders
- 128 BECO Tuned-Port pulsators
- 128 BECO Acu-Clean backflush valves
- 128 BECO MegaFlow 7/8" milker units
- Auto ID with activity monitors
- BECO ParlorScan milking management software

BECO Dairy Automation thanks Joseph Gallo Dairy Farms and Joe Teixiera for the opportunity to serve them. We also recognize
the quality workmanship and experience of Frank Silveira, Mike Urban, and Scotty Reed in the installation and coordination of the
project.

Joseph Farms - The California Cheesemaker
10561 W. Highway 140 - Post Office Box 775
Atwater, California 95301
209-394-7984 - Fax 209-394-4988
JGFInfo@josephfarms.com

Joseph Gallo's farming success took root in the vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley, where he began working following World
War II. He expanded his agricultural operations to include grapes, feedstock crops, dairy and beef cattle. As a result of strategic
planning and assessment of emerging opportunities, Joseph Gallo Dairy Farms was started in 1979. This first dairy milked over
3,000 cows in two double 16 polygon parlors.

With the overabundant fresh milk supply in California in the early 1980's, he built a cheese processing plant to use the milk from
his own herds. Joseph Farms became the first (and longest operating) cheese producer in the nation to be granted government
approval to label its products with "No Artificial Hormones". Joseph Farms brand cheese is sold in retail stores in over 20 States,
Mexico, and Pacific Rim countries.

Today, the Joseph Gallo Dairy Farm consists of five dairies milking approximately 15,000 Holstein and Jersey cows. A 17,000
head calf and heifer facility provides heifers to the dairies and for sale. Farming operations include approximately 15,000 acres of
combined corn, grain and irrigated pasture. A methane digester is installed at Cottonwood dairy to provide fuel for two generators
supplying over $500,000.00 of electricity annually for the cheese plant along with hot air for the drying process. Joseph Gallo
Dairy Farms employs over 450 people.