We say agriculture is a capital-intensive industry. I’re always thought it’s just like that and there’s nothing you can do about it. These are just facts that everyone agrees on. I have now discovered that we can actually do something about it. But also that many do nothing. Other companies work a lot with the…
“It is not so either!”, Someone will say. But at least you can not find anything about dairy cattle farming by google the word. You can not find anything about production planning at SEGES either! In economics, the term is sometimes used in connection with budgets, but it is not used in relation to planning…
You know the feeling of a steady flow All of you who work with cows know what a steady flow means for efficiency. We know it from the milking parlour and the carousel. The cows get into a calm steady rhythm, the work slides quietly all the time, the cows go out themselves and the…
Do you focus on efficiency? Then you need to start creating flow in the production. A stable flow with regular weekly groups is fundamental to creating efficiency. How to make a flow chart I have made an example of a production flow in a herd of 1000 cows. I have outlined the absolutely perfect flow…
Can you imagine a milk production where the same number of calves comes every week and where the same number of dry cows are moved every week? And the young animals are divided into uniform group sizes. All the time there are the same number of milking cows and the production is stable! It is…
