Luxembourg's plea for daily life production

A high lifetime production at discharge is nice, but the average production per day of life says much more about how efficiently the cow has produced. This is what the Luxembourgish trade magazine De Letzebuerger Züchter writes. In 2023, the average lifetime production at discharge in Luxembourg was 24,859 kg of milk. The 16,840 cows that were removed produced this in 2.5 lactations and were removed at the age of 63.6 months. Insight into efficiency The Luxembourg trade journal states that the average lifetime production does not actually take into account the level of milk production per day and the average calving age. As a result, information about the efficiency of final lifetime production is lacking. The key figure 'kg of milk per day of life' provides more insight into this. That is the lifetime production divided by the number of days the cow was alive. Calving age of almost 30 months The area code is not new and is also used in other countries, but is not yet common ...