Rosy Lane Holsteins LLC
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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
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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!
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  • Home
  • About Rosy-Lane
    • Our Locations
    • Our Cows >
      • Our Milk
      • Our Herd
      • Our Calves
    • Our Crops >
      • Feeding
    • Our Staff
    • Our Families
    • Our History
    • Photo Gallery
    • SOPs & Resources
  • Community
    • Open House
    • Virtual Farm Tour
    • Watertown FFA Ads
    • June Dairy Month Ads
  • Speaking
  • In the News
  • Contact Us
    • Jobs