MEASURING MILK QUALITY LOSSES USING A MODIFIED GOAL FORM

摘要

In order to achieve change on a dairy farm and for the herd owner to invest in improvements in milk quality, an assessment of her loss is required, which can be used to indicate the level of opportunity available and the potential rewards that may arise from implementing a milk quality action plan. A modification of the original Goal Form described by Nordlund (1991) has been used to assess milk quality losses on herds requesting milk quality investigations by the Production Medicine group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Losses related to milk quality compared to achievable targets are assessed in four main categories.