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A pulsión de poner más animales en ordeño trae aparejado un problema de sobrepoblación que, muchas veces, puede poner en riesgo las ganancias.

Controlling variation requires that employees clearly understand the goals of the dairy.

The highest stocking rate is producing 26% more milk for the SAME net income as compared to the lowest stocking rate!

Profit in the Details

How full does your faciity need to be for optimal profitability?

The only way to improve performance on your dairy is to measure it over time. Here are five key areas to remember when setting up a monitoring system:

In turbulent financial times, it is critical to monitor changes in feed efficiency and feed cost as they impact income over feed cost

After months of depressed milk prices and high feed costs, most dairies have cut costs beyond what they ever thought was possible. Going forward, however, it may be time to re-evaluate some of these changes, or even consider adding some components back to the inputs to improve efficiency.

While milk prices are improving for the new year, feed costs continue to be higher than previous averages. This will limit the return to historic profit levels.