dairy costings Articles
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Running an Efficiency Audit on your Feed Center
If you are like most producers, at one point or another you toy with the idea of re-designing your feed center. Today there are lots of good examples of indoor feed centers and it yields the question, do I need a fancy feed center? If I take the plunge what will it do for me? Before jumping to a re-design, perhaps an efficiency audit is in order... What is a feed center for? The main purpose ...
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Analysis of competitiveness of a dairy property through reverse logistics: a case study
This paper aimed at evaluating the competitiveness of a dairy property located in the Western Paraná State that uses the reverse logistics of the animal waste produced by the activity. Therefore, we collected information related to the property and the activity by questionnaires and in loco observations seeking information regarding the drivers that affect the competitiveness of the property, ...
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Not just milk-and-water
As global demand for milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products continues to grow, cost and energy management concerns are driving the introduction of new technologies in dairies to optimize and control costs of water usage. In dairy plants, water usage is one of the major costs in the processing of the milk that is both a direct product and a primary raw material used to manufacture ...
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Dairy Labor Management: The Interview
Most financial statements identify feed followed by labor as the items that cost the most on a dairy. Taxes, wages, and benefits are included in the financial definition for labor; however, I rarely see training and training time included. To me the investment of time and training raises the value of an employee, especially those that have been with the dairy for a long period of time. The ...
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Cost-effective Pelletizing Machine For Dairy Feed Production
Dairy animals such as goats, cows, buffaloes, camels, etc. need to be fed nutritious food so that they can produce a good amount of milk every day. Dairy feed pellets have all the essential components mixed in them that are needed to make nutritive milk. Animal feed pellet machine is used to manufacture dairy feed of different diameters (2 to 10mm usually) and size. A variety of raw materials ...
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Choose A Pelletizing Machine For Dairy Feed Making Business
Feed pellet making machine is used to manufacture dairy feed of different diameters (2 to 10mm usually) and size. A variety of raw materials such as rice husk, corn, wheat bran, etc. can be used to make nutritious pellets. The choice of raw material depends on the type of animals and their dietary needs. With the continuous improvement of the intensive production level of dairy cow breeding ...
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Case Study: Dairy Plant minimizes product loss with online COD, cream and protein monitoring
Reducing product loss and limiting COD discharge to the municipal sewer system were key goals for a dairy manufacturing plant. The facility looked to Real Tech to help achieve these goals, installing an industrial grade, real-time BOD/COD probe on the effluent of their production plant. The wastewater probe delivered reliable and continuous COD, cream and protein data, in addition to event ...
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