What Management Practices Are High Producing Dairy Herds Using?

A national dairy survey was undertaken by the National Healthy Monitoring System in 1996, and the results are still valid and being used today.

This survey of management practices was sent to 2,500 herd managers in 20 states representing 83.1 percent of all dairy cows in the United States. The states included in the survey were California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.