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Milk yield

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

nounCommon term

In agriculture, milk yield means: The amount of milk an animal or herd produces, usually measured in liters or kilograms per day or per lactation.

In Turkish: süt verimi

How it is used

A key figure in dairy farming, breeding and feeding. Farmers record milk yield at each milking, compare average milk yield per cow and use a standard 305-day lactation to compare animals.

Example sentences

  1. Average milk yield on the farm is 28 liters per cow per day.

  2. Heat stress in July lowered milk yield by about ten percent.

Common collocations

  • average milk yield
  • daily milk yield
  • 305-day milk yield
  • increase milk yield
  • milk recording
  • dairy farmA farm that keeps cows, or sometimes goats, sheep or buffalo, mainly to produce milk for sale.
  • breedA group of animals of the same species with similar appearance and characteristics, developed and kept by people, such as Holstein cattle or Merino sheep.
  • feedFood given to farm animals, such as hay, silage, grain or manufactured mixtures, chosen to meet their nutritional needs.
  • calvingThe act of a cow giving birth to a calf; also the period of the year when the cows in a herd give birth.
  • yieldThe amount of crop, milk or other product obtained from a given area or animal, usually given as tonnes per hectare or kilograms per decare.

More terms: Livestock

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