Now that June has come and gone I wanted to share this and explain how it is that I am making my "total gallons shipped" quotes at the end of each of my posts. In the photograph below is an important piece of paper that is hung in the milk room next to the parlor. This sheet of paper has information useful to us starting from the left; the date, time milk truck driver arrived, the temperature of the bulk tank, the pounds of milk collected, and the name of the collector. This is a very handy paper as we can keep an extra close eye on the temperature of the bulk tank because if it gets too warm it will support bacterial growth and the milk will spoil. We can also keep an eye on the milk that is being produced from our cows and see how it fluctuates depending on the weather or sudden feed changes. All I do is divide the total pounds of milk shipped for the day by eight because there is roughly eight pounds in a gallon of milk which makes it easier to visualize how much milk we are shipping. And yes, we send our milk to Oakhurst.
Today we shipped 45,186 pounds of milk, or rather 5,648 gallons of milk and had no new calves.
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