milking herd

On average this limit is reached by a milking herd of 130 cows.

Those with milking herds had a ready market for farm gate sales of butter and cheese.

Seventy Holsteins, the entire milking herd, had been trapped inside.

Ellie had, too; artificial insemination was the safest way to breed the milking herd.

Originally, the brothers wanted to expand their milking herd to 700 from 400 to help recoup their losses.

John Hamilton hoped to build a new milking parlor and increase the size of his milking herd from 200 to 700.

His wife supplements the family income by working off the farm as a part-time speech therapist and he has plans to double his milking herd.

Turnips and other root vegetables grow well in Scotland; sheep were needed for the table and milking herds declined.

When the milking herd one day pushed out of its feedlot into a neighboring field of weeds awaiting planting, milk production immediately increased.

'They were worth about £18,000, but are almost irreplaceable, as some were young cattle due to join my milking herd.'

Mr. Pinney said he did not want to see his 300-cow milking herd sent to slaughter, after spending years selecting breeding animals with the highest production potential.

Owned by Jo Rutherford, Trigo rounded up the milking herd and brought it back to the milking parlour in Devon.

Despite falling prices, Mr. Schuppel said he expected his gross income would rise this year because he has increased his milking herd from 70 cows to 90.

One of the first milking herds in North America was in Canada at Fairburn Water Buffalo on Vancouver Island.

In 2008, the Fairview goat herd is the largest commercial goat herd in Africa, numbering 750 does in the permanent milking herd.

With a milking herd of 3,000 and 55 employees, the sprawling farming complex is one of the larger employers in the region, which depends on agriculture and tourism to survive.

This year, the nation's 220,000 dairy farmers, with a combined milking herd of 10.3 million cows, are expected to produce 147 billion pounds of milk, selling it for about $18 billion.

Harold W. Giard of Bridport, Vt., said the drug might help him produce as much from 85 cows as his milking herd of 113 now supplies.

VanderSloot then paid off a $2 million debt the company owed to the dairymen, staffed the plant with his own personnel and supplemented the milking herd with two thousand head of cattle.

There was a time when Wisconsin was undeniably "America's Dairyland," when small farmers, growing their own feed and milking herds of 40 or 50 cows, made a good living under government-supported milk prices.

Now most dairies must have more than one hundred cows being milked at a time in order to be profitable, with other cows and heifers waiting to be "freshened" to join the milking herd .

Rejecting the advice of the agriculture experts, they are going to cut the size of their operation, selling part of their farm to cut their debt load, and reducing their milking herd to 30 cows.

Mr. Duffy, whose farm in Carlisle is about average for New England in its milking herd size - 60 cows - said the compact had brought him $5,570 extra so far, raising his milk receipts by about 3 percent.

While badgers can 'snuzzle and take all the corn crops' and will sometimes take the odd lamb, they are not considered a threat to farming, though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds.

There are now milking herds in North and South America, Jamaica, Australia and East Africa and the breed is also found in New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Germany and Romania.