Cow Haven LLC

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Cow Haven LLC

• Select Sires-Midwest
• Leah Molitor
• Bradley Fry
• Shelly Bohn
• Ben Seifert
• Erin Lyons

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Overview of Cow Haven LLC

• Passionate about the dairy industry
• Clean environment
• Very well organized and labor friendly
• 30,230 lbs RHA
• 1197 lbs of fat
• 920 lbs of protein
• Closed Herd

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Overview of Cow Haven LLC

• Calf Care
• Appear to grow well
• Low death loss
• Incentive program for employees
• Reproduction
• CRI mating program
• 19 Pregnancy Rate
• 73 Days to first service

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Milk Quality

• Good procedure
• Dip, Strip, Dip, Wipe
• Really do an exceptional job on teat end
  cleanliness
• All procedures are in English and Spanish
• Moment from first contact to milking machine
  application
• Average of 5 cows 217
• Average of 4 cows 158

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Milk Quality Areas of Improvement

• More aggressive culling of high SCC cows
• Cow 12 9999 and 3 of total bulk SCC
• Cow 150 9701 milking 56 lbs/day and is 3 of
  total bulk SCC
• Teat end damage

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Milk Quality Areas of Improvement

• 284,000 SCC current to 200,000 SCC
• Gain 0.11/cwt 1496 cows30,230 lbs of milk/100
  49,746.49
• Push up feed as cows return from milking

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Nutrition

• High Home-Grown Feedstuffs
• Low incidence of metabolic disorders
• Areas of Improvement
• MUN levels are averaging 14
• Ideal is 12
• Indicates that there is an over feeding of
  protein
• Slight spoilage of corn

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Cow Comfort Facilities

• Fans, soakers, cow comfort for summer weather
• Appropriate grooving of cement
• Clean Maternity Pens
• Sand as bedding

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Cow Comfort Facilities Areas of
Improvement

• Feed Availability after milking
• 20 hours of feed available
• 1lb of DM 2lb of milk
• Water Supply
• Grooming of Stalls
• Size

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Facilities Continued

• Pre-fresh Heifer Freestalls (Pen 100)
• Inadequate size
• Laying in alley
• Dirty

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Financial Information

• 9,056,937 Net Worth
• Debt to Asset Ratio 1.591
• Short 2.161
• Intermediate 68.821
• Long 1.911
• Total Assets of Farm Increased by 14
• Liabilities went down by 3.3

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Financial Information

• Crop Inputs decreased by 55
• Vet Services decreased by 17
• Breeding decreased by 13
• bST costs decreased by 13
• Livestock supplies decreased by 13
• Herd Size went up 11 and milk sales increased by
  28

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Financial Areas of Improvement

• 3,924.47 Profit/Cow
• 4,799.89 Debt/Cow
• (875.42)
• Operating Expense Ratio is 83
• Feed Costs increased 62
• Custom Heifer Raising increased by 72, but
  heifer numbers only increased by 25

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Take Home Messages

• Phenomenal management
• Ideal communication system
• Lower SCC to increase milk incentives
• Minor Facility
• Improvements

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Thank You