But there is little dispute that milk production has fallen to surprisingly low levels.
Since milk production involves big investments in equipment, they have probably gone for good.
If the milk production falls, Mr Ebner may have other plans for that cow.
"Currently, the decline in Estonia's milk production has stopped, " explains Taavis Aas, Financial Director of E-PIIM Dairy Co-operative.
Schmallenberg virus (SBV) causes fever, diarrhoea and loss of milk production in adult cattle, although the animals do recover.
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Heat disrupts cows' reproductive cycles, and their milk production goes down, he said.
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But milk production has not fallen as a result, since herds have grown and milk yields have increased in cows.
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Ian Smith, acting chairman of industry body Dairy Farmers of Scotland, said domestic milk production was at its lowest level since 1972.
According to Andres Oopkaup, Deputy Secretary General of Estonia's Agriculture Ministry, 37% of food and farm output is dependent on domestic milk production.
Mr Watts said milk production had been more expensive during the winter because the nutritional value of forage had been undermined by a lack of sunshine.
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So far, milk production has increased to about 18 pounds each from his top animals this month, up from less than a pound of milk in March.
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In its September Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook, the USDA notes an overall milk production reduction for 2012 based on a lower forecast for milk yield per cow.
Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.
Now state officials have cut fees incurred for over-production of milk in Norway in the hopes that will boost milk production and get the raw materials needed for butter-making to local dairy cooperatives like Tine.
It mentions a CCTV report broadcast in September last year praising the quality controls on milk-powder production by Sanlu, a leading dairy company.
Mr Woods said almost half the food we eat is dependent on fungi, such as the production of milk and bread.
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Danone said it was taking action to respond to the shortfall in the UK, including increasing production of milk, which means extra supplies of all its brands are arriving every week, according to BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson.
As a nation, the UK is still self-sufficient in the production of fresh milk and cream.
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Guernsey Dairy has suspended the production of organic milk and will import Jersey milk due to a shortfall.
In Hay Day, you can spend to speed up production of eggs and milk, or upgrade silos and barns.
For example, the Cuban government has decentralized the production and distribution of milk and has ordered new buses from China to ease major transportation problems.
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Plans were originally introduced following the 2009 milk crisis that saw a combination of rising production costs and falling prices.
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To achieve these feats, Nektar's scientists performed hundreds of hours of computer simulations, tested more than a dozen different formulations of dried insulin and traveled around the world drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese seeds, plants in the Mexican desert and production techniques used in making instant coffee, powdered milk, aviation aerodynamics, truck fuel injectors and industrial vacuum pumps.
The milk must come entirely from cows living within the legally defined geographic production area for Parmigiano-Reggiano (around the towns of Parma and Reggio).
Had it defined itself as a nutrition provider rather than a milk producer, the dairy industry could have shifted its focus from production to marketing.
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The strict production rules require cows to graze by the place where their milk is turned into cheese, and in this case the ski slopes outside get in the way.
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