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Bulk Milk Tank Temperature Record
A free printable bulk milk tank temperature record: a month of morning and evening readings with times and initials, collections, washes and deviations.
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What this sheet is for
Show the milk was cooled after every milking, with the time and initials of whoever read it. Anything outside the buyer's limits is written up with its cause and fix.
Who it is for
Dairy farmers and milkers without an automatic tank recorder, or keeping a paper back-up beside one.
How to use it
- Copy the cooling and wash water limits your milk buyer sets into the boxes at the top, with where they come from.
- Read the tank at the same point in the routine after each milking and write the time, the temperature and your initials.
- Tick each collection and each wash, and write the wash water temperature when you check it.
- Give any reading outside the limits a deviation number and write up the cause, the fix and what will stop it happening again.
- Have the month checked and file the sheet where an inspector can find it.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: A month, front and back: the milk temperature after each milking with the time and who read it, the collection, the wash, and anything outside your limits.
The buyer's limits, not ours. No cooling temperature, time limit or wash water figure is printed. Copy the limits your milk buyer or quality scheme sets into the boxes below, read the tank at the same point in the routine every milking, and write up any reading outside them as a deviation.
Write-on lines: Farm or holding · Month and year · Tank · Milk buyer · Cool to · Within · Wash water target · Limits from · Thermometer checked
Daily readings — milking three times? Use the notes for the third reading
Also printed: Morning milking · Evening milking · Wash · Day · Time · Temp · Collected · Done · Water · Notes · initials · tick · temp · deviation no.
Page 2
Also printed: Morning milking · Evening milking · Wash · Day · Time · Temp · Collected · Done · Water · Notes · initials · tick · temp · deviation no.
Deviations — any reading outside your limits, or a wash that did not run right
Table, 4 rows: No. · Date · What was seen · Milk affected · Cause · What was fixed · To prevent it · By
Write-on lines: Month reviewed by · Date · Filed or sent to
Questions
Why is no tank temperature printed on the sheet?
Because the limit, the time allowed to reach it and the wash water target are set by your milk buyer, quality scheme or local rules, and they are not the same everywhere. Copy yours into the boxes at the top so every reading is judged against the right figure.
What counts as a deviation?
Any reading outside the limits you wrote at the top, a milking where no reading was taken, or a wash that did not run properly. Write what was seen, what milk it touched, the cause, the fix and the step that stops it recurring.
We have a tank recorder. Is this still useful?
As a back-up, yes: a manual reading after each milking covers a recorder that fails, and the deviation section is still where the explanation goes.
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