One yellow card in milk monitoring
A yellow card indicates that tolerance limits were exceeded more than four times in the year for measurement of fat, protein, lactose, and SCC in the samples which Teagasc Moorepark sends each month to the four milk recording labs (at Munster AI’s two labs, Progressive Genetics, and Tipperary Co-op).
Results of the inter laboratory proficiency testing were given at the recent International Committee for Animal Recording conference in Cork, but the identity of the “yellow-carded” lab was not divulged. It had test results outside tolerance six times, five of which were for SCC. Of the other three labs, most of their test failures were for fat and protein measurement.
