Hi, all! It's been a long time and a lot has happened. I'll hit the highlights...
Well, I didn't like the plan Hubbard was able to generate, even though it was what I asked for. So I talked to Lewis Ramsey at Milk Safety and some of his comments were exactly what I needed to come up with the above layout. Set up to ship or receive or process, or all of the above. Now to get it drawn up into a plan I can submit to Frankfort, with all the details like lighting placement, floor drain locations, etc and so forth. The devil's in the details... It may be self serving but I really have to say the guys in Milk Safety have been so far very easy to work with. Yes, they have a job and they will get it done ie meeting all the regs but they want people to dairy, even non conventional stuff like a farmstead cheeseplant.
Well, Gary Spry didn't bother to be there for our appointment, nor did he ever call me back. I was so peeved I got on the Iphone right there in the lobby and found the website for the Kentucky Society of Architects http://aiaky.org/find.php. Lo and behold, there is one not two miles form my house. In thirty minutes we were discussing a plan.