Here we have an industry that has
been “dumping” milk for nearly two years, producing more milk than our
marketers can sell. This will only
end when enough dairymen go bankrupt, and enough poor cows get shipped, to
bring supply back in balance with demand.
In the meanwhile, higher
quality and specialized character milk is in demand. Decisions you make in the management of
your current herd and the genetic selection for your future herd, help to
qualify you for the premiums that consumers will pay us for—longer shelf
life, better flavor, specific nutrient content, less processing before it hits
the store, applicability to auto-immune diseases, better documented care of
cows. These are the factors
driving future access to premium milk prices—not volume.
Mating selection for improved milk
quality is a reality today—inside you will find some ideas to help.
Supplementation in direct
support of the immune system has the advantages of being “prevention”
rather than “treatment”. Higher SCS is
more difficult to “treat” than to prevent by understanding what are the real
factors in production of somatic cells in the milk.
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