Request for help

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Dear Pancaratna Prabhu,

 

Sorry about the delay in replying to your letter.

 

I have a doubt about your following analysis.

 

>Cost of milking (10 cows)

>Labor 4 hours/day (365 days/year) @ $7 per hour $10,220

 

Does this labour time include the following:

1. Herding the cows from the pasture for milking

2. Cleaning the milking area

3. Herding any suckling calves from there holding/pasturing fields

4. Feeding hay during the non pasture months

5. Feeding the rest of the herd

6. Putting down fresh bedding for the cows and oxen during winter

7. Moving the milk to and from the cow barns to the kitchens or

sales areas.

8. When the main milkperson goes on vacation will he/she receive

holiday wages? If so then that is in effect a double payment on those days

(his and the relief milker).

9. Apart from milking the cows what does the milkperson do at other

times to suplement the income?

 

 

I have attached the milking analysis of the Bhaktivedanta manor herd kept

over the past 8 years which may assist you in your yield calculations and

longevity of lactation. If you have any questions about it please let me

know.

 

In your general costings and thoughts have you included the following:

 

1. The cost of manure removal and spreading by oxen and/or by

contractor.

2. The cost of home grown hay and/or of bought in hay.

3. The cost of home grown straw and/or of bought in straw

4. The cost of fence repairs and general building repairs

5. Veterinary costs

6. Will your proposed wage of $7 per hour be enough to keep a

householder satisfactorily.

7. Will the milkperson have a tied home or will they have to make

their own arrangements for living accommodation.

8. If they are not strict sadhana bhaktas will there job be at risk

 

 

Sorry about the labyrinth these questions may create but I am sure you have

already considered them already.

 

ys syam