I can see where money would be saved by cutting back on milkings, but I wonder if it really pencils out as well as it seems. If paid labor is part of the dairy I could understand some savings. However, it seems that too many dairymen are worried about cutting costs and lose sight of the potential income they are giving up. It is a fact that milk is given up the fewer times a cow is milked in a 24 hour period. Giving up milk gives up cashflow. I have not done any figuring but it seems to me that one would be much further ahead by cutting cow numbers and staying at 2X milking rather than maintaining cow numbers and, because of labor shortage or whatnot, cutting back to 1X milking. More cows with lower production are less efficient than fewer cows with greater production. With environmental issues these days, we should all be concerned with efficiencies now more than ever.