The Dairy Pipeline

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The Dairy Pipeline
Fixed Government Price
Cheap Resources
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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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Provide Raw Material

• 18 inches to 2 feet of bunk space per cow
• Maximize dry matter intake
• 2 inches of water space per cow within 50 feet
• 25 to 30 gallons of water per day

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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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Proper Work Space

• Clean, Soft Place to Lie
• Temperature in Thermoneutral Zone
• Clean dry air
• Good footing, cows can move confidently

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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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Reproduce

• Maximize the number of lactation Peaks

Milk
Time
Lactation 1
Lactation 2 Lactation 3
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Get Cows Pregnant at 70 days

• Calve cow cleanly
• Encourage cow to cycle early
• Synchronize- PGF, OvSynch, G 6 G
• Diagnose pregnancy
• Re-inseminate open cows as soon as possible

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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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Help her through challenging times

• Intervene when necessary
• Maximize feed intake
• Monitor closely (daily) for first ten days

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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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Harvest Milk Cleanly

• Milk Clean, Dry Teats with a Clean, Dry Machine
• Pre-dip for environmental mastitis
• Post-dip to prevent contagious mastitis

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Let The Cow Do Her Work

• Raw Materials- well balanced diet
• Proper work space
• Reproduce
• Help her through her challenging times
• Harvest milk cleanly
• Add Frosting to the cake- BST, Lighting, Feed
  Additives, 3x or 4x/2x

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The Dairy Pipeline
Fixed Government Price
Cheap Resources
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BST

• Eight to Ten Pounds of Milk per day
• Stimulates IGF-1
• Cows eat more- milk is not free
• Cows at risk for more disease (feet, mastitis,
  indigestion)
• Can be adapted by any size farm
• Public not fond of production treatment

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Lighting

• 20 Lumens of light at Cow for 16 hours per day
• Difficult to implement in 24 hour herd
• May decrease fertility

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Feed Additives

• Cows must eat them!
• Nothing for free Rumensin partitions nutrients
  does not create them. Watch butterfat and
  protein
• Public is not fond of production treatment

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3x or 4x/2x

• Pressure causes milk producing cells to die
• Increased milking decreased pressuremore milk
  producing cells
• 6 to 8 pounds from 2x to 3x
• Cows must eat 10 hours, lie down11 hours, no more
  than 3 hours in milking

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