Dakin Dairy Farms In Manatee County Sold To Owner’s Nephews

MYAKKA CITY, FL — The 350-Acre Dakin Dairy Farms in eastern Manatee County, which was put on the market for an undisclosed amount at the end of last year, will stay in the family.

The Myakka City farm at 30771 Betts Road will be taken over by Jason, Garrett, Grant and Ethan Dakin, the nephews of owner Jerry Dakin, the company wrote in a Facebook post.

"I'm very excited to announce the good news about Dakin Dairy Farms. I am turning over management and full operations to the next generation of dairymen,” Jerry said. “I am proud to say my four nephews will be the new owners and they plan to keep it a working dairy farm that will use new technologies to expand the product line and continue to serve our community in a bigger and better way. I'm not going anywhere but I'm happy to see the next generation of farmers dedicated to growing agriculture in our community, our state and our country. The Dakins see this as a win, win for the farm and the community.”

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He put the farm on the market following the deaths of his two brothers in recent years.

The family has a long legacy of dairy farming. Romanus “Pete” Dakin started the first Dakin family dairy in Maine and, eventually, the family began dairy farming in Manatee County in 1973, according to the Bradenton Herald.

"It feels like we are carrying on our legacy. This is what our family has done for three generations now. We will be the fourth," Ethan Dakin told Fox 13.

The turn-key Dakin Dairy Farms has about 3,000 “lactating cows” with the capacity to expand the herd size to 4,000, according to the property’s listing from SVN | Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate.

It also has six free-stall barns, a milking parlor, production areas, commodity storage, silage storage, and a milk processing plant for processing and packing milk produced on site.