A profitable lactation is built from small, compounding gains: an extra litre per cow, half a point off the cell count, a tighter return to calf, a cent saved per litre. Tracking the right benchmarks across the year is how you find and hold those gains.
The share of inseminations that result in a pregnancy, the first read on fertility and joining readiness.
The share of the herd back in calf within 100 days of calving, the key timing measure in a year-round herd.
Live calves reared against the cows eligible to breed, the herd's reproductive output and replacement supply.
The share of the herd still empty 200 days after calving, cows you must cull or carry unproductively.
How old replacement heifers are when they first calve and enter the herd, the payoff of the rearing program.
Milk volume per cow per day across the lactation, peak yield and persistency in one curve.
Kilograms of fat plus protein per cow, the basis most processors actually pay on, not litres.
Butterfat as a share of milk, it drives milk-solids payment and rises late in lactation.
Protein as a share of milk, the higher-value solid, steered by energy in the diet.
How cows spread across stages of lactation, a steady spread keeps the vat full all year.
New clinical cases detected each week, the frontline signal of udder health and milking hygiene.
Somatic cells per mL in the vat, the herd-level read on subclinical mastitis and quality premiums.
The split of the herd across early, mid and late lactation, it drives feed demand and vat volume.
Milkers carried per hectare of the milking platform, grazing pressure matched to pasture grown.
Pasture grown per hectare per day against herd demand, where they cross is the winter feed gap.
Tonnes of pasture and silage eaten per cow, the cheapest feed and the base of every ration.
Total operating cost per litre of milk produced, your breakeven, independent of the farmgate price.
Milk income less feed, the largest single cost, the fastest read on whether the ration is paying.
Milk income less direct costs per hectare of platform, the truest measure of land productivity.
Kilograms of CO₂-equivalent per litre of milk, and it falls as the herd gets more efficient.
Connect your milk portal, herd-test records and accounts, Silo keeps every benchmark on this page current, automatically.