Discussing procedural drift, Lisa Holden, PhD, emphasizes the need for dairy producer management to refresh SOP training and monitoring. It’s easier to write an SOP and train than to create the culture of compliance, she shared.
Source: Dairy Herd Management, January 12, 2023. Link.
The consistency that cows crave so much is gained through those standard operating procedures, but people have to adhere to them.”
INSIGHTS: Reviewing and training on some of the herd SOPs and monitoring implementation is a service veterinarians can provide to help ensure best practices and cow health.