Recovery in milk recording continues

THE cost-cutting push in the late 1990s unfortunately resulted in many essential practices being scaled down or eliminated on farms.

Among these were milk recording and dairy AI breeding. From 2004 to 2008, milk recording increased rapidly, but dairy AI usage increased by only a few per cent per year until 2008, when it increased by more than 5%.

Unfortunately for the Irish dairy industry there was a reversal again in 2009, particularly for milk recording.