The main reason why dairy farms are located on flat ground is related to farming practices. Growing crops for grain, silage and hay for the dairy operation is important to the dairy farmer and growing crops efficiently is best on flatter ground.

You may have heard a rule-of-thumb is that it takes 1.5 to 2 acres to feed a cow calf pair for 12 months. That means we should be able to have 10 to 13 cows. Let’s see how this rule-of-thumb holds up. It looks like our rule-of-thumb held up pretty good, 11 cows on 20 acres, is 1.8 acres per cow.

Dry cows are commonly housed in a freestall or on a bedded pack. Dry cows in a bedded pack require 50 square feet of space in the early dry period, and 100 square feet of space when they are close-up. When possible, there should be a separate, designated area for calving.

An area of 100 square feet per head for a stock of 10 calves and an increase of 50 square feet for every additional calf will make a good paddock.

in dairy farming. You also need to set aside some land for fodder cultivation (for 10 cows depending upon soil , rainfall , irrigation facilities , land required varies but 1.5 – 2.0 acres).

For us, dairy farming is definitely profitable and worth a go. Since inception, we at PowerGotha.com , believe and recommend that the milk business can be profitable right from the start. To succeed in any business, at first, we need to note down all income & expenses to measure the profitability.

Still, on average, large farms show the most profit per cow at about $275 per cow. Farms with less than 200 cows have profits of about $160 per cow. Herds with 200 to 500 cows are seeing profits of just $84 per cow. “The challenging size are the 200- to 500-cow farms,” he says.

The average net return favored the high-profit group as they exceeded the overall average by $96.51 per cow to finish the 11-year period with an annual profit of $152.42 per cow. When calculated over the 11 years, this amounts to an additional $1,061.61 of profit per cow.

A report from ratings agency CRISIL says operating earnings margins of dairy companies for 2019-20 are projected at four to five per cent, as compared to six per cent for the previous year. For the coming year, 2020-21, it is forecast at six to seven per cent.

On average, farmers spend $1.92 to produce a gallon of milk and make $1.32 when they sell it to processors.

So Profit is Rs 108,000 – Rs 69 ,000 = Rs 39,000 per cycle (13 months). So for profit for 1 month is Rs 3,000. The value of calves and sale of dung is not included in this calculation. If you take good care of the calves, it will cover for the replacement cost of the buffalo at the end of it’s productive phase.

It follows a cooperative structure and one of the most profitable cooperatives in Kerala State….Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation.

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Milma or KCMMF (Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation) was established in April 1980. The KCMMF manages the brand ‘milma’ and allows the Regional Unions market their products in this brand name.

Description. milma brings you milk Pasteurized under Ultra High Temperature, which ensures long shelf life without refrigeration. Since it is processed at high temperatures, it is safe for hospitals and children. It is also an energy-saving product as it need not be preserved in an artificially cooled environment.

According to Dr Saurabh Arora, founder, food safety helpline.com, there is no need to boil pasteurized milk at all. “As it has already been given heat treatment during pasteurization, milk is microbe free. If we boil pasteurized milk, we end up diminishing its nutritive value.

The milk produced by crossbred cows in the State contained a lower SNF (solid non-fat) content. Milma should mention B for buffalo milk, C for cow milk and G for goat milk on its sachets.

The judges observed that Milma was committing a fraud on the people by making a declaration that its milk is fresh and pure when it actually produced milk by converting skimmed milk powder.

Milma long life milk is manufactured using High Temperature processing technology. Therefore, it can be used for 90 days without any refrigeration.

It has high nutritive value. It supplies bodybuilding proteins, bone-forming minerals and health-giving vitamins and furnishes energy-giving lactose and milk fat. Besides supplying certain essential fatty acids, it contains the above nutrients in an easily digestible form.

With its introduction, the TRCMPU will have three types of milk — the yellow sachet double toned milk (1.5% fat), the blue sachet toned milk (3% fat), and the new green sachet (4.5%) milk.

When you shop in the dairy case, the primary types of milk available are whole milk (3.25% milk fat), reduced-fat milk (2%), low-fat milk (1%) and fat-free milk, also known as skim milk.

The 7 Healthiest Milk Options

1. Hemp milk. Hemp milk is made from ground, soaked hemp seeds, which do not contain the psychoactive component of the Cannabis sativa plant.
2. Oat milk.
3. Almond milk.
4. Coconut milk.
5. Cow’s milk.
6. A2 milk.
7. Soy milk.

The 9 healthiest milk brands you can buy

• Best fortified: Clover Sonoma Organic Whole Milk DHA Omega-3 + Choline.
• Best low-temperature pasteurized: Lifeline Farm Organic Whole Milk.
• Best goat milk: Meyenberg Whole Goat Milk.
• Best unpasteurized: SideHill Farm Certified Organic Raw Milk.

The throwback cow’s milk, both Lemond and Larson point out, is the healthiest option because of its naturally occurring vitamins, which include everything from Vitamin D, potassium and calcium, to phosphorous, Vitamin B-12 and even melatonin. It’s the “gold standard,” Larson claims. Lemond recommends 1% and skim milk.

The most expensive milk on the market comes fresh from Japan’s Nakazawa Foods for a whopping $43 a quart – more than 30 times the average cost of milk. Why so expensive? Supposedly this milk has special stress-relieving qualities.

6 Best Substitutes for Milk

• Oat milk. Oat milk is so creamy, foams well (hello, matcha), and tastes slightly sweet (in a grain, not sugar, kind of way).
• Nut milks. Nut milks now come in a dizzying array of flavors and sweetness levels.
• Soy Milk.
• Hemp Milk.
• Coconut Milk.
• Rice Milk.

Soy milk

• Califia Unsweetened Almond Milk Creamer.
• Silk Dairy-Free Original Soy Creamer.
• Coffee-Mate Natural Bliss® Unsweetened Plant-Based Half-and-Half.
• So Delicious Organic Coconut Milk Creamer.
• CoffeeMate Natural Bliss Vanilla Oat Milk Creamer.
• Original Oat-Ly Oat Milk Barista Edition.
• Silk Oat Yeah Oat Milk Creamer.

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