The cost of power, with 50-55% of the costs, is the main account of expenses out-of-pocket drums. Within the cost of the food stands out the use of concentrates in the diet, around 40% of the dry matter consumed and usually represents 30-35% of the income of milk and a 35-40% of the total direct costs of the drums.
Doing a survey conducted among dairy farmers currently spending on feed the dairy cow turns out to be the main concern in the sector due to the sharp increase in cost of grains, by-products and pet food. The power is in check and there is a focus on the liters-free power we suggest to follow the link to download the form to your calculation and the probable income to get with the diet to be implemented. In several specific cases we observe an increase of +20 to +30% on the cost of the diets of the cows representing currently between 12 and 16 lt of milk/cow/day (forage + concentrate).
Quote from ingredients of the diet
Among the issues to consider arises in the first place, the need to evaluate prices listed by ingredients and not for the food as it is presented. By way of example we present the following table to quote ingredients (taken from our program Rations 3.50) where the price/ton as is put in the field is "translated" to a price per ton of dry matter, ton of crude protein (PB), and ton of TDN (total digestible nutrients that refer to the energy value of food). By doing this we can choose the source of the protein or energy more convenient for our production plan:
The purchasing power of the milk in front of the corn and soybeans has deteriorated significantly by pressing on the production. In the following charts, we can see the normal distribution of the kg of corn and soybeans per litre of milk over a period of 21 and 26 years, respectively. The red circle marks the current situation:
Apart from choosing the food that is most suitable there are a number of strategies to implement depending on obviously what follow going on with the markets: grains can stagnate or fall, and the price of milk will rise, all of this by changing relative prices.
Strange in these moments feeders individual with the soguita that allowed to differentiate the rationing between cows. Currently we standardized the supply within the installation of milking or directly everything in the mixer forcing to generate groups of cows...the larger the group the greater the dispersion away from the needs of each cow in particular. Herds of cows that are to shore up the labor, the fresh and the group of high production. Always will be convenient, and more in moments like this, to be able to put together a group of cows with more than 200 OF the where to avoid expensive foods (protein, to get milk) being able to give them something more economic group who prefer fat to produce milk). This is one of the advantages of the robot! you can give each cow requires depending on your level of production.
Other alternatives to consider if this stays or gets worse, as it would be to overtake discard planned, fast forward, fast drying cows.., and always ensure animal welfare.
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