Milk Recording is an essential management tool in today's modern, cost efficient dairy farm. It involves the regular measurement of milk, fat, protein and somatic cell count of individual animals within the herd to assess the profitability of each animal.

Milk Recording is an essential management tool in today's modern, cost efficient dairy farm. It involves the regular measurement of milk, fat, protein and somatic cell count of individual animals within the herd to assess the profitability of each animal.

Milk Recording is the only reliable method to measure genetic progress in the dairy herd. Data on individual cows allows the farmer to make sound breeding decisions, breeding replacements from only his best cows and selectively culling of low profit cows from the herd.

Data is now being processed through the new IRIS milk recording system from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). The IRIS system provides a series of modern management reports to help the farmer make informed management decisions.

For herds with approved farm management computer software, we provide your monthly test results by email to ensure your computer records are updated without delay.

To avail of this service please forward your email address to milkrecording@progressivegenetics.ie.

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Milk Recording options
A4
This is the most popular option with monthly visits to the farm by a trained milk recorder, where milk volumes from evening and morning milkings are recorded. In addition, a sample of milk is taken for analysis to measure fat, protein, lactose and SCC content.
A6
As above with visits to the farm every six weeks.
A8
As above with visits to the farm every two months. For more information on milk recording contact us on info@progressivegenetics.ie or telephone 01 450 2142.