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16 THE RURAL VOICE
hours were spent with each cow over
the year. If that labour is valued at at
the industrial equivalent of $19.63
per hour, the average cost of labour
amounts to $2,146 per cow per year.
Even at the average of $11.80 paid to
non -family -member labourers, the
cost is still the largest single expense
on the farm.
"I think you don't know the
labour costs on your farm," he
challenged producers. "Why not?"
The difference spent on purchased
feed between the 15 highest profit
herds and the 15 least profitable
farms was only $8.10 to $8.'65 and
there was only a dollar difference in
breeding and vet bill costs.
But the highest profit farms spend
.84 hours for every 100 litres of milk
produced compared to 2.36 hours for
the lowest profit farms, nearly three
times as much time. "If we apply the
value of $19.63 per hour this labour
is worth $16.49 on the high profit
farms and $46.33 on the low profit
farms — about three-quarters of what
100 litres is worth!"
"Isn't it time we started measuring
time?" he asked, saying he'd like to
see Dairy Herd Improvement
Association ask farmers to record
their time spent.
To work smarter he urged
producers to question the
necessity of everything they
do. "Farm work tends to fill the
available time," he said. "Question
'do I need to do this?' 'Does it need
to take this long?"
As an example a study of Ontario
milking parlour operations found an
extra person in the parlour only
allowed the milking of an extra eight
cows per hour, not a very good use of
time.
The survey showed a difference
from 18 minutes to 72 minutes spent
in setting up and cleaning the
parlour. "Why so much difference?"
A survey of Ontario's large herd
operators showed they spent an
average of 27 per cent less time for
herds averaging 151 cows compared
to smaller farms with an average of
63 cows. In fact workers on farms
with more than 300 cows spend less
than half as much time per cow as the
63 -cow herds.
Rodenburg also promoted the
efficiency of free stall herds, saying
surveys year after year comparing