Participating dairies averaged 60 cows per person in 1995, with eight dairies in the 30's, while 3 dairies had more than 100 cows per person. Size of lactating herds did not have a clear effect on cows per person. Seven dairies of less than 400 cows had an average of 69 cows per person, while seven dairies of 400-1000 cows averaged 44, and seven dairies of more than 1000 cows averaged 68 cows per person. More dairies in the program should help sort this out. Milk sold per person Probably a more useful indicator of production efficiency with respect to labor inputs is milk sold per person per year.
Units are hundred weights of milk sold per year.
Data in the table shows the decreasing cost as milk per person increases. Data in the table suggests that as volume per person increased, personnel costs per cwt. The Dairy Business Analysis Program is available free to producers. Dairy Producers Assoc. This program is planned to answer these questions as well as provide leaders of the Southern dairy industry a detailed understanding of current proposals for merging Federal milk marketing orders and other alternative proposals for order reform.