As a parlor manager you have a lot of little details you have to pay attention to. The details matter to keep quality milk harvest flowing and minimize health issues in the herd. BoviSync integrates with parlors allowing you to find insights into your parlor and milk harvest performance. This post explains a few sample reports that are useful for taking advantage of parlor information.
Review Two Minute Yield
The first two-minute yield is going to be primarily impacted by milking prep procedures. This report (Fig. 1) uses the same data, but instead of grouping by milking unit, we are going to group by milking shift number. Adding the manual and manual detach counts that some parlor interfaces send, can also be useful.
Here I want to look at individual shifts and using my knowledge of the dairy apply my expectations of differences in shifts. In this particular sample report above, you can see that the third (night) shift has about 4% less milk in the first two minutes and has 5 seconds longer duration with 1.2 pounds greater yield (3.7% greater).
When there are differences between shifts that aren’t explainable, look to milking procedure protocol drift between shifts. And when overall you aren’t achieving your goals, look at the protocol. What changes need to be made in your milking procedure to get the milk yield you want.
Reviewing how milking shifts perform compared to each other can help you use data to demonstrate efficacy of milking preparation. Differences in two-minute milk letdown, durations, and detaches can all be indicators of sub-optimal milking preparation. Here is an additional report comparing days: Two minute Milk by Day – Click to Load