A NEW WAY TO COUNT GATE PASSAGES

Are you comfortable running your gas gauge to empty before you even look for a gas station or do you fill up when you get below half a tank? I use my GPS even when I know where I am going because I have this irrational need to always compare my distance to empty to my distance to destination. In robotic milking, if we compare the number of milkings per cow per day to the distance to destination, then gate passages, rejections and refusals compare to the distance to empty. Gate passages, rejections and refusals measure activity in the barn, and we need to know there is enough activity to get the milkings we need, just like we need to know there is enough gas to get the miles we need.

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