BACKGROUND HaEmek Dairy Ltd., the largest dairy farm in Israel, is the product of the merger of three dairy farms from Kibbutz Yifat (where the current, shared dairy farm is located), Kibbutz Merhavia and Kibbutz Megiddo. Originally established in 1954, the dairy farm has grown significantly in the past decade following two mergers that took place in 2000 and 2006. Today, the farm is operated and managed by a 20-person team, has approximately 1,200 cows and 900 calves, and produces 13 million liters of milk annually. The center of HaEmek Dairy is the milking parlor, which contains 2x32 Parallel milking points. The cows are milked three times a day in groups planned according to the rate of their milking. CHALLENGES "Profitable management means being strict about health, feeding

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