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Large Herd Management in the South and Southwest

Knolle Jersey Farms, Sandia, Texas

ABSTRACT

Because of inflation, decreasing profit per unit, and specialization there has arisen a need for large herd management in the South and Southwest. The manager of the large herd is faced with a multitude of problems encompassing labor, feed, disease, climate and, above all, profit.

Today in this area, the problem of labor—quality and quantity—is foremost in the mind of management. More and more time is being spent dealing with the different aspects of labor management. Total pounds of milk per man and number of animals per man are some of the common denominators used in labor management decisions. More capital is required to utilize labor effectively. Like all large agricultural businesses, the dairies in the South and Southwest have been affected by the Federal Wage and Hour Law. There appears to have been little change in labor costs, because managers of most of the large herds pay substantially more than the one dollar an hour.