OAD milking is the practice of milking cows only once during a 24 hour period. This differs from the traditional twice a day (TAD) milking regime.

Key reasons why farmers consider OAD milking:

• Less time spent milking cows
• Reduce staff pressure
• Feed shortage
• Stock health (lame cows, light cows, heifers, milk-fever prone cows)
• Reproduction (non-cyclers, heifers, or whole herd in a feed shortage)
• Small dairy shed for herd size
• Farm layout (walking distance to shed).