You’ve probably heard the saying “If you can measure it, you can manage it.”, right? Well, it’s true. And everyday, you manage a dairy that sells a product that gets measured before your customer picks it up.
So what should you do if your dairy isn’t selling high-quality milk? Where do you start? Here’s the simple answer… ipaddress pay more attention to what your milkers are doing in the parlor.
And what’s the easiest thing you can start doing? Have your milkers hang up their filter after each milking. Then, check it to see how clean it is. If you invest a few minutes doing this everyday, your team will realize that they are being held accountable for cleaning udders properly.
Here are the results that we achieved at a 900-cow dairy in Wisconsin…
Before putting up these laminated “Pass/Fail” filter report cards, this dairy owner noticed his milkers threw away dirty filter socks 6 out of 7 days of the week.
After this manager became accountable to checking and grading filter cleanliness every day, his milkers are accountable too. Now 6 out of 7 days, the filters are clean.
And the best part… their Somatic Cell Count is finally coming down!
You’re only 3 steps away from monitoring, measuring, and managing your milkers’ udder prep… download your Filter Scorecards here.
1. Print them.
2. Cut them.
3. Laminate & post them.