Milking Speed Trait Coming August 2025

In this episode of The Select Sires Podcast, host Ethan Haywood is joined by Asha Miles, director of dairy records management systems and chair of the milking speed evaluation task force for the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB). Asha gives us an inside look at the development of the new milking speed genetic trait set to launch during the August 2025 sire summary. Learn how this trait was defined, the immense data behind it, and what its release means for herd efficiency especially in a time when every second in the parlor counts.

Chapters

• 0:15 Introduction of Asha Miles
• 0:58 Development of Milking Speed evaluation
• 3:07 How is Milking Speed measured?
• 3:33 Where does the data come from?
• 4:44 Sorting through observations and data
• 6:23 How to interpret the Milking Speed PTA
• 7:32 Which milking systems does this best work with?
• 7:58 Utilizing milking frequency and milking intervals
• 9:10 Heritability and reliability of Milking Speed
• 10:44 The future of Milking Speed evaluations
• 12:22 U.S. and Canadian Milking Speed evaluations: Which one should I use?