Take steps to ease the drop in yields, Glanbia urges

High-quality grass crucial for limiting milk yield decline

When the seed head appears, grass dry matter digestibility is about 70%.

Glanbia has advised milk suppliers to take advantage of the current milk price, by limiting the post-peak yield decline to less than 2.5% per week.

From a peak yield of 26 litres per day, a week decline of 3% until drying off will result in 52,800 litres less milk supplied by a 100-cow herd, compared to a 2% weekly decline.