Is mastitis on your “dashboard”?

Do you know how much mastitis chips away at your farm's profitability?

To get help in determining this figure, check out this "dashboard" developed by Jeffrey Bewley, University of Kentucky extension dairy specialist. Use it to calculate and illustrate — to yourself and to your staff — the economic impact of mastitis due to lost milk production.

Individual farm data can be entered to calculate losses. The dashboard provides a nice visual representation of what’s happening in your herd.

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