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How Does Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —This data is pulledfrom Pennsyl
vania DHIA’s mainframe computer each week. It is a one-week sum
mary representing approximately one-fourth of the herds on test, as they
are tested monthly.
These data arc valuable from a business management standpoint and
can be used for comparing your operations to the averages from almost
1,400 herds across the state.
DHIA Averages for all herds processed between 5/08/93 and 5/15/93
Number of Herds Processed
Number of Cows Processed
Number of Cows Per Herd
Milk Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Fat
Fat Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Protcin
Protein Per Cow (Lbs)
Average Days in Milk Per Cow
♦Value for CWT Milk(S)
•Value for CWT Grain(S)
•Value for CWT Hay(S)
•Value for CWT Silagc(S)
♦Value for Pasture Per Day(S)
♦Value for Milk Per Cow Per
Ycar(S)
♦Feed Consumed Per Cow Per
Ycar(Lbs)
A: Grain
B; Hay
C: Silage
D: Day Pasture
♦Feed Cost Per Cow Per Ycar(S)
A: Grain
B: Hay
C: Silage
D; Pasture
♦Total Feed Cost Per Cow Per
Year(s)
"■lncome Over Feed Costs Per
Ycar(s) 1,480
♦Grain to Milk Ratio 1:2.5
♦Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(S) 4.98
Avg Level For 962 SCC Herds 349,805
•Member generated figures
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ROBERT YONKERS
PSD Ag Economist
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Dairy producers are
increasingly adjusting milk pro
duction in response to changes in
milk prices.
High milk prices in late 1989
and early 1990 resulted in produc
ers slowing the rate of decline in
cow numbers. In fact, cow num
bers were even above year-earlier
levels for a few months in late
1990.
This pattern repeated itself last
year, when 1992 milk prices were
well above 1991 levels, and once
again the rate of decline in cow
numbers slowed considerably.
Meanwhile, changes in output
pcr-cow appear to be related to
more than just milk prices.
A poor forage-growing season
clearly contributed to ycar-over
year declines in milk per cow in
late 1989, and slower increases in
late 1992. However, low milk
prices were probably responsible
for the slow growth and even
declines in output per cow during
most of 1991.
Cow numbers on farms and
average output per cow combined
add up to total milk production.
It is apparent that the relation
ship between production and
prices has been strong in recent
years (See the chart for Year-Over-
Year Percent Change In Total Milk
Production.).
Year-over-year declines in total
milk production during most of
1989 resulted in a close milk
supply-demand balance, which
lead to stronger milk prices in late
1989 and early 1990.
Dairy producers responded to
this market signal by boosting milk
production to the point in late 1990
where milk supplies exceeded the
demand for dairy products. The
result here was the low milk prices
during the fust half of 1991.
While the milk production
increases during mid-1992 almost
equalled those of 1990, the rate of
growth in milk production slowed
late in the year and has remained
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low in early 1993. So, instead of spring which have kept milk prices
milk prices dropping like in late up. But remember, if dairy produc
-1990 and early 1991 due to sup- ers respond to this market signal by
plies exceeding demand, milk buy- .increasing milk production later
ers have been worried about this year to the point where sup
attracting enough milk to meet plies exceed demand, prices could
their needs this year. fall just as rapidly. This is why so
The result has been rapid and many in the industry are saying
large increases in cheese prices that the key to milk prices in 1993
(see figure on next page) this is milk production.
YEAR-OVK-YEA* PERCENT CHANGE M NUMKR
OF MJ( OOWSk 21-STATE TOTAL, BY MONTH
YEAR-OVER-YEAR PERCENT CHANGE M OUTPUT
PER COW. 21-STATE TOTAL BY MONTH
YEAR-OVER-YEAR PERCENT CHANGE N TOTAL
MLX PRODUCTION, 21-STATES, BY MONTH
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