TRACK YOUR HEIFER TRAINING
- Feb 5
- 3 min read
My college coursework at UW Platteville included a lot of production agriculture classes, so there was less time for calculus and statistics. I didn’t know what a standard deviation was until 40 years later when I wanted to understand algorithms for activity monitoring systems. I discovered that a standard deviation tells how much the data varies from the average. Doc Hoffman did cover that in my basic dairy production class. “The average doesn’t mean much if you have one foot in a bucket of ice water and the other in a bucket of boiling water.” That’s why it's important to track your heifer training. Average daily milkings for fresh heifers can be deceiving. Even if they average 3 milkings, half of them are milking less than 3 times a day – maybe a lot less.
