 CowTime Guidelines for Milk Harvesting
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CowTime Guidelines for Milk Harvesting
Title & Contents (149kb)
Section: Introduction (516kb)
Foreword
Advisory Committee
Sponsors
Using the guidelines
The CowTime Project
Goals
CowTime Guidelines
Section: CowTime Principles
System overview, measuring milk harvesting performance
Section: Improving Processes
Entry to laneway, laneways, laneway-yard junctions, CowTime cost cutters
Holding yards, dairy entrance, CowTime cost cutters
The milking area, the milking work routine, milking the cow, CowTime cost cutters
Milking machine cleaning, yard cleaning, CowTime cost cutters
Section : Learning from others
Industry performance graphs, case study farms
Section: Planning for change
Dairy type, dairy size
Site considerations, general infrastructure, inside the dairy, CowTime cost cutters
Making changes, analysing $ implications, preparing budgets
Future trends, automatic milking installations
Section: Further Assistance
Books, journal articles, videos, organisations
Sources, Quick Note topics
1. Working out performance measures, 2. Working out work routine time, 3. Working out unit time
CowTime contacts
Section: Index(138kb)
Click here for the CowTime Quick Notes, a series of short fact sheets about specific milk harvesting topics which have been written by experts in the field.
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