Advice for dairy farmers: Stretch high yield out into the autumn

ICBF milk recording reports for August 17-27 showed average milk production of 20.4 kg per cow at 4.1% fat, 3.54% protein, and 170,000 SCC.

And more recent ICBF data indicated these figures had changed very little in the first half of September.

At this level of production it should be relatively easy to maintain reasonably good yields of milk solids late into the autumn with good quality grass and a few kgs of concentrates.