Evaluation of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Record System

Abstract
The daily variation in milk production was estimated to be in the range of 4-5 lbs. squared or a standard deviation of 2.00 lbs. This may be sufficiently large enough to warrant re-evaluation of the present standars for accuracy in measuring devices. It was found that the present method of calculating records consistently overestimates actual production. Correction factors were developed to remove this bias.