Summary of Meeting With Employees to Discuss Milk Quality By Casey Odom This report focuses on the questions that

examined the characteristics of the dairy herds and how different labor management practices are related to herd demographics. In surveying dairy farmers about their production, we discovered that the management of non-family employees may be important when looking at milk quality and BTSCC. We found that meeting with employees to discuss milk quality may be important to milk quality on dairy farms. Owners or managers who hold at least one annual meeting with employees to discuss milk quality have lower BTSCC. This can be seen in the charts below. All of this data is statistically significant and, along with many more tables and data, is detailed in the Report on Comparison of Means between Milk Production and Employees. All of the data in the report was collected with the Survey of Mastitis Management on Dairy Farms.

Do you hold at last annual meetings with your employees to discuss milk quality?
198,000 196,000 194,000 Cells per milileter 192,000 190,000 188,000 186,000 184,000 182,000 180,000 Bulk tank somatic cell count for last three months*
Note: Differences in means marked with an asterisk (*) are statistically significant

Yes 195,329 No

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