Project #1 – Covington Dairy

Project Manager: John Rudgers

In the fall of 2004, Synergy embarked on its first large-scale project, acquiring a dairy in Covington, NY. This project fit the 'turnaround' category, as it was a dairy that had tremendous facilities and resources, but needed additional capital and cattle to generate profitable production.

Through the help and expertise of Linwood Management Group, the Synergy partners have achieved:

• Increased per-cow production
• Improved reproduction rates
• Profitability by bringing together the unique talents and resources of the Synergy partners

Project #2 – Middleport Dairy

The founders of Synergy, LLC are seeking to establish a modern dairy farm operation which captures the efficiencies of scale and effective operation that have been deployed in other regions of the U.S., bringing advanced housing, feeding and milking technologies to the New York dairy industry, thereby capturing substantial competitive advantage and offering notable returns to the interested investor.

The planned venture will require a multi-million dollar investment from local and regional investors to finalize the purchase of more than 2,500 acres of mostly contiguous and highly productive crop land in Niagara and Orleans counties, to construct a 3,000 cow dairy farm, and to provide startup capital to the operating entity that will own the dairy cattle and manage the new dairy.

Future Synergy projects

Future Synergy projects will likely fall into one of three categories:

1. New Milk

• Build new facilities on land base of a converting crop farmer(s).


• Expand facilities of an existing smaller dairy farm(s).

2. Succession/Transition

• Acquire viable working dairies from owners that need an exit strategy.


• Viable alternative to cash sale


• Structure that provides liquidity and risk reduction for those at retirement age.


• Provide needed capital to expand a smaller dairy on good land base

3. Turnarounds

• Acquire distressed dairies (that have viable resources) from overextended borrowers.


• Provide capital needed to complete expansion to optimal size, and maintain profitable production

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