HOW REPRO PERFORMANCE IMPACTS ROBOT UTILIZATION IN ROBOTIC MILKING

During a recent farm meeting, a nutrition consultant shared a KPI that was new to me. He said that less than 37% of the milking cows should be over 200 days in milk (DIM). 37% over 200 DIM will correlate closely to a herd average of 170 days in milk, or 60% of the herd pregnant. But the percent over 200 DIM correlates with robot usage a little more clearly than those other metrics. Repro performance can have a huge impact on robotic milking system performance. The difference between 45% over 200 DIM and 30% over 200 DIM can be over 200 pounds per robot per day. Here’s how.

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