Our Milk

Our Milking Parlor

• Double-12 parallel
• 24 cows milked at a time
• “Afi-milk” computer system measures milk production, cow movement, & helps monitor cow health.
• 22 hours a day operating
• 7+ hours per milking
• Each cow is milked 3 times / day
• 30 minutes between each milking for clean-up

Our Monitoring System

• ​Afi milk collars monitor rumination on our transition cows
• Any departures from normal rumination times put a cow an alarm list for our staff to check

Our Milk Trucking

• 3 minutes from cow to a semi tanker
• 3 seconds milk cooled from 101º to 35º F

Our Milk Plant

• Saputo Cheese plant near Waupun
• 11 Semi trailers delivered a week
• 6,200 gallons per trailer load

WISCONSIN FACTS

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    No. cows in herd

    Ave. # milk/cow/year
 
    Ave. prod./cow/day
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    Number acres per farm 

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Wisconsin Average
    
164
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    24,152#
 
    7.5 gallons or 65#
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   209 acres

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Rosy-Lane

1,750

31,500#

12 gallons or 100#
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2,150 acres

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MILK FACTS

•    One gallon of milk weighs 8.6 pounds
•    There are 200 dairy plants in Wisconsin and 144 cheese plants
•    It takes 10 lbs of milk to make 1 lb. of cheese. It takes 21 lbs. of milk to make 1 lb. butter    
•    Every dairy cow in Wisconsin generates more than $34,000 in economic activity
•    172 Rosy-Lane cows have produced more than 200,000 lbs. milk in their lifetime-that’s 3.75 semis of milk each!