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WHAT'S HAPPENING ON
PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY FARMS?
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This month we are presenting
information on the technologies being
used on Pennsylvania dairy farms. This is
the second set of results from a 1997
mail survey by the Department of
Agricultural Economics and Rural
Sociology of Pennsylvania dairy farmers.
The 874 dairy farmers responding to the
survey averaged 65.3 cows per farm and
17,476 pounds of milk sold per cow.
Each farmer was asked what type of
milking system was used on the farm,
and if they used automatic takeoffs, TMR,
DHIA, bST, personal computers, or
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What’s Happening On PA Dairy Farms
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written farm plans. The results indicate
a wide variation of herd size and milk
production per cow of the farms using
individual technologies (Table 1).
Please keep in mind that the use of a
certain technology does not necessarily
mean greater profitability. More than half
(56.5%) of Pennsylvania's dairy farmers
use a bam pipeline milking system. The
results indicated that 18.3% of the
farmers use a milking parlor while
25.1% of the farmers continue to use
milker pails. As would be expected, the
average herd size on farms using milking
parlors is more than 3 times larger then
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herd size of farms using milker pails and
2 times larger than the herds size of
farms using a bam pipeline. Dairy farms
using milking parlors or bam pipelines
average more than 1,850 pounds of milk
per cow than farms using milker pails.
However, there is little difference in
milk production per cow between cows
milked in milking parlors and cows
milked with bam pipelines. In addition,
automatic takeoffs are used on 16.2%
of the state's dairy farms. These farms
tended to have larger herd size and
greater milk production per cow.
www.dhia.osu.edu
1-800-DHI-lIST
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