USING PEAK PRODUCTION TO EVALUATE ROBOTIC MILKING

Every dairy producer likes to look at peak production numbers, especially with the availability of that metric in robotic milking software. It is truly amazing how much milk the modern dairy cow can make in a day, when she is at the top of her lactation curve. Peak production is even more impressive when you remember that each extra pound at peak will result in 200 to 250 more pounds over the whole lactation. If peak milk increases 5 pounds per cow in a 300-cow herd that’s 300,000 to 375,000 pounds – about the same as adding 10 to 15 cows except you don’t need any extra free stalls, bunk space, or robots.

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