Abstract
For modern dairy farms, having accurate labour requirements for each individual work process is of the greatest importance, in order to exploit the available rationalisation potential and hence make the best use of the resource labour. Besides the process routines in milking and feeding, special and management activities become more important. The deliberate use of process-engineering and work organising tools makes it possible to reduce working-time requirements appreciably under otherwise identical conditions. In milk-production systems with herd sizes of between 40 and 1000 dairy cows, a total working-time requirement of between 90 and approx. 50 man hours per cow and year is to be expected.
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