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    Labour efficiency on-farm

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    O'Brien, Bernadette
    Gleeson, David E
    O'Donovan, K.
    Ruane, D.
    Kinsella, J.
    Mee, John F
    Boyle, Laura
    McNamara, John G.
    Keyword
    Labour Efficiency
    Dairy farming
    Milking process
    Milking frequency
    Animal welfare
    Date
    2007-01-01
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11019/985
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    O'Brien, B., Gleeson, D., O’Donovan, K, et al., Labour efficiency on-farm, End of Project Report, Teagasc, 2007.
    Abstract
    Improvements in milking efficiency have a greater influence than any other aspect of the dairy farmers work on overall farm labour inputs (Whipp, 1992). In order to facilitate the examination of milking process labour inputs, the milking process may be divided into the following three components: herding pre and post milking (transfer of cows to and from the milking parlour); milking (milking tasks / work routines within the parlour); and washing (washing of milking machine and yard). Meanwhile, within milking specifically, the number of cows milked per operator per hour is the best measure of both the performance of the operator and the milking installation (Clough, 1978). This is affected by the following three factors: the milking times of the cows, the number and arrangement of the milking units, and the operator’s work routine (Whipp, 1992). The addition of extra milking units will only increase milking performance if the operator has idle time during milking (Hansen, 1999).
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