WHICH COMES FIRST – MORE MILKINGS OR MORE MILK?

Sometimes robotic milking conversations in farm meetings sound a little bit like, which came first, the chicken or the egg. “Milkings will increase as soon as these cows start making more milk.” “I know these cows can make more milk if we can just get them to milk more frequently.” Or, “Each 1/10 increase in milking frequency results in another 2.5 pounds of milk.” I have heard all of these. Can they all be true? It depends. Let’s take a look at each of them.

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