Site prep and earthwork for cattle and swine operations — manure pit and lagoon excavation, feedlot and heavy-use area pads, bunk and feed-pad prep, lot grading, and drainage that pulls water away from the barns. Across the 60-mile radius from Mattoon.
(217) 809-0779 📞 Free EstimateA confinement barn, a feedlot, or a swine finisher only works as well as the ground it sits on. Set a pit or a lagoon in soil that won't hold, cut a lot without the fall to drain, or skip the compaction under a heavy-use pad, and you fight it every day after — mud at the bunk, water standing where the cattle stand, a pad that pumps and ruts under the traffic.
We do the earthwork for cattle feedlots, swine confinement, dairy and mixed operations — the excavation, the pads, the grading, and the drainage that make the rest of the build work. It's the same discipline we bring to pole barn pads and general site prep, scaled to what a livestock facility puts on the ground. And if an old barn or lot is standing where the new one goes, our farm building demolition crew clears it in the same mobilization.
Below-barn pit digs and outdoor earthen lagoons cut to the depth and side slopes your engineer or builder specs, with the clay work packed to hold. We dig to plan, not by feel.
Strip, cut to grade, compact the subgrade, and surface the high-traffic areas where cattle and equipment work the ground hardest. When the plan calls for it, built to the NRCS Heavy Use Area Protection (Code 561) standard.
Clean water away from the barns, dirty water to where it belongs. We shape lot grades, cut access, and tie in drainage so the site drains instead of ponding at the barn line.
Yes. Below-barn pit excavations and outdoor earthen lagoons, cut to the depth and side slopes your engineer or builder specs, with the clay work packed to hold. We dig to plan, not by feel.
Yes. We strip, cut to grade, compact the subgrade, and place rock or the surfacing your plan calls for. When the plan calls for it, we build heavy-use area pads to the NRCS Heavy Use Area Protection (Code 561) standard.
Yes. Getting clean water away from the barns and dirty water to where it belongs is half the job. We shape the site, cut the lot grades, and tie in drainage so the ground drains instead of ponding at the barn line.
Yes. Bunk aprons and feed pads need a flat, well-compacted, well-drained base that stands up to daily traffic and scraping. We build the pad and the approach the equipment runs on.
Yes. We work to the plan your confinement builder, precast supplier, or engineer hands us, match elevations and slopes to their spec, and schedule the dirt work so the next crew can step right in.
Both — cattle feedlots, swine confinement, dairy, and mixed operations. The dirt-work fundamentals are the same: a subgrade you can trust, the grades to drain, and pads that carry the load and the traffic.
It depends on scope — pit size, pad footprint, cut and fill, soil, haul, and access all move the number. The right way to price it is a walk on your ground. Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate.
60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Decatur, Champaign, Effingham, Charleston, Urbana, Sullivan, Tuscola, Shelbyville, Pana, and Terre Haute.
Brohez Trucking LLC delivers livestock facility earthwork across a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — into Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Edgar, Clark, Champaign, and Macon counties, plus over the line into Vigo County, Indiana. Pick your town below for local details, or call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in the radius.
Putting up a barn, a lot, or a lagoon? Walk us through the spot. We'll tell you what the dirt work needs.
(217) 809-0779 📞 Call For Free Estimate Contact Us