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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1229016" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>At a $4.70 milk price there's not a lot of margin in buying feed to produce milk. Some of the guys that have geared up with housing and equipment to feed full rations reckon they need more like $6 to break even.</p><p></p><p>I put the cows on once a day milking nearly a month ago and we lost 10% of the daily production doing that, but we can still come out ahead financially from labour and electricity saved... and in the long run, it's possible to hold production better on 1xday in tight conditions as the cows are saving energy and holding condition better.</p><p>Just frustrating when you know you've got good cows that can do the production but they're either dried off after 180 days in milk or wound right down in feed through the late summer if it doesn't rain. I reckon the first good autumn following an average spring on this farm I'm going to get another 7% on top of last year's record production, on all grass. With feed there's no telling how high it could go, I've got a few cows now that can do 550 kgMS on short lactations, all grass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1229016, member: 9267"] At a $4.70 milk price there's not a lot of margin in buying feed to produce milk. Some of the guys that have geared up with housing and equipment to feed full rations reckon they need more like $6 to break even. I put the cows on once a day milking nearly a month ago and we lost 10% of the daily production doing that, but we can still come out ahead financially from labour and electricity saved... and in the long run, it's possible to hold production better on 1xday in tight conditions as the cows are saving energy and holding condition better. Just frustrating when you know you've got good cows that can do the production but they're either dried off after 180 days in milk or wound right down in feed through the late summer if it doesn't rain. I reckon the first good autumn following an average spring on this farm I'm going to get another 7% on top of last year's record production, on all grass. With feed there's no telling how high it could go, I've got a few cows now that can do 550 kgMS on short lactations, all grass. [/QUOTE]
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