Milk Unlimited Dairy Farms, LP

01/25/2025

2024 Was a GREAT year for Milk Unlimited Dairy Farms!

A few year end numbers
3275 cows
96.7 pounds ECM
4.41% butterfat
3.34% protein
1.71 feed efficiency
24.8% turnover rate
Over 90% ProCROSS

2025 looks like it will add to our success.
We have a new milk processor
Corn silage is feeding great
Barns are FULL of beautiful alfalfa
Calf and heifer program are stellar

01/01/2024

Milk Unlimited Dairy Year End Numbers

3400 cows

4.36% butterfat
3.28% protein

94.4 pounds ECM

1.65 ECM:DMI

26.3% Turnover

26.3% first lactation

Overall 2023 was an excellent year to be milking ProCROSS cows in southwest Iowa. Here's to a successful 2024!

12/26/2023

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12/26/2023

12/10/2023

With ProCROSS you can achieve greater profitability and optimize your dairy herd in a number of ways. Due to improved fertility, health and survivability, ProCROSS cows have a longer productive life with the same level of daily production, and so you improve the lifetime production of your herd. ProCROSS is an easy-to-manage system. Overall, trouble-free, healthy and efficient ProCROSS cows give you less stress as a herd owner and higher job satisfaction for you and your employees.

11/23/2023

On Thanksgiving Day Milk Unlimited is thankful for God, wonderful weather, good employees and ProCROSS cows!!!!!

A few ProCROSS stats from our herd

2638 ProCROSS milking
Butter fat 4.38%
Protein 3.37%
Average lactation 2.3
Herd turnover 20.7%
Over 150 days milking 78.3% pregnant

11/20/2023

Paying more attention to feed efficiency indexes when selecting sires for dairy herds will help compensate the escalating costs of feed being witnessed today.
With that in mind dairy farmers are being urged to consider all options to help mitigate these high costs and one perfect tool for doing so is a more targeted and efficient use of genetics.
There are five straight questions you should ask your genetics rep when considering feed efficiency indexes.
1. Is the data collected from commercial herds without disturbing cows’ natural behaviour and routines on the farm?
2. Is the data on feed intake collected on lactating cows?
3. Is the feed intake measured throughout the whole lactation and over cow’s lifetime?
4. Does the index allow to breed for better feed efficiency without the negative impact on production, health and fertility?
5. Does the feed efficiency index account for metabolic efficiency?
Metabolic efficiency is a crucial element in feed efficiency as it measures how efficient the cow is in converting feed energy in her body.
The development of a reliable index for feed efficiency requires direct and accurate measurements of individual cow’s feed intake in a large number of lactating cows under the conditions in which they are expected to perform.



The Saved Feed Index which is part of the Nordic Total Merit index is based on data from the Cattle Feed Intake System, a state-of-the-art system where 3D cameras and artificial intelligence are used to collect data in the cow’s natural environment 24/7 year around:
• 1,300,000+ daily intake records on lactating cows
• 12,000+ lactating cows
• 1,000,000+ feed visits per day

Breeding for higher feed efficiency helps reduce the environmental impact of dairy and beef industries, as more feed efficient cows have lower methane emissions.

Curious about the impact of breeding?

11/20/2023

ProCROSS is an easy-to-manage system; you can maintain the correct rotation of breeds using colored ear tags. Inbreeding is no longer an issue. The only thing to remember when choosing bulls is that you use the best bulls available within the breed. Your cows will remain healthy, fertile and produce for longer and in this way the genetic heritage of your herd remains stronger.

01/19/2023

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0pacUcAIVW9aANY9b15wPNcYRNVBt_j/view

How ProCROSS works!