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A recent study estimated that the cost of subclinical mastitis to the US dairy industry exceeds $1 billion annually.

Any way you slice it, Mastitis is brutal; with major negative impacts on dairy farmers profitability and morale, animal welfare, and the environment.

In the table below are just a few studies on the cost of mastitis in dairy herds around the world. Mastitis cost estimates vary depending on whether all costs are considered, direct and indirect; whether all types of mastitis are considered, clinical and subclinical. Mastitis costs also depend on the specifics of locations or breeds, pathogens involved, and milk market prices.

One thing is clear, it is ruinous for all stakeholders and current mastitis management methods have fallen short of delivering convincing results. Farm Medix and its partners offer unique advanced mastitis management solutions for real mastitis reduction and prevention that have proven to work.

Cost	Unit	Country	Clinical Mastitis (CM) Sub-clinical Mastitis (SCM) or Both?	Costs considered	Mastitis prevalence rate considered	Reference Article	Publishing Journal or Media	Author(s)	Reference article link	Published year
EUR 240	per lactating cow per year	The Netherlands	Both	yield loss, discarded milk, culling, labour costs, consumables and investments, vet costs	27% for clinical mastitis	Failure and preventive costs of mastitis on Dutch dairy farms	Journal of Dairy Science	Felix J.S.van Soest et al.	Read the article	2016
EUR 28	per cow per year	USA, Michigan	CM	Labour costs, consumables, vet costs, yield loss, culling and replacement		Economic effects of bovine mastitis and mastitis management: a review Kaneene and Hurd	Veterinary Quarterly Volume 29, 2007 - Issue 1	T. Halasa et al.	Read the article	2011
EUR 31	per cow per year	USA, Ohio	CM	Labour costs, consumables, vet costs, yield loss, culling and deaths	0.37	Economic effects of bovine mastitis and mastitis management: a review Miller et al	Veterinary Quarterly Volume 29, 2007 - Issue 1	T. Halasa et al.	Read the article	2011
EUR 22	per cow per year	USA, California	CM	Labour costs, consumables, vet costs, yield loss, culling and deaths		Economic effects of bovine mastitis and mastitis management: a review Sischo et al	Veterinary Quarterly Volume 29, 2007 - Issue 1	T. Halasa et al.	Read the article	2011
EUR 102	per case per year	UK	SCM	Out put losses and expenditure for treatment and prevention		Economic effects of bovine mastitis and mastitis management: a review McIrnerney et al	Veterinary Quarterly Volume 29, 2007 - Issue 1	T. Halasa et al.	Read the article	2011
EUR 279	per case per year	England	CM	Labour costs, consumables, vet costs, yield, culling		Economic effects of bovine mastitis and mastitis management: a review Hillerton et al	Veterinary Quarterly Volume 29, 2007 - Issue 1	T. Halasa et al.	Read the article	2011
USD 100	production loss per cow per year	USA	Both	Yield loss, discarded milk, labour, vet costs, consumables		Premiums, Production and Pails of Discarded Milk How Much Money Does Mastitis Cost You?	Milk Money Resources, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Pamela Ruegg, DVM, MPVM University of Wisconsin, Madison	Read the article	2005
EUR 278 EUR 60	per case of clinical mastitis per case of subclinical mastitis	Sweden	Both	SCC, yield, feed intake, milk withdrawal, vet costs, labour		Economic consequences of mastitis and withdrawal of milk with high somatic cell count in Swedish dairy herds	The Animal Consortium 2010	Christel Nielsen et al.	Read the article	2010
EUR 3,190	110 cow herd/ year (yield loss and treatment only)	Spain	CM	Yield loss Treatment		Clinical mastitis in Spanish dairy cows: Incidence and costs	Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research	M. A. Pérez-Cabal et al.	Read the article	2008
USD 12,000 to USD 76,000	per farm per month (CM at the farm level with 2,578–9,044 lactating cows per farm)	China	CM	Yield, withdrawal period, treatment expenses, vet costs	0.6 - 18.2%	Prevalence, etiology, and economic impact of clinical mastitis on large dairy farms in China	Veterinary Microbiology, Volume 242, March 2020, 108570	Wenjuan He et al.	Read the article	2020
USD 444	per case per year (average herd size 1.087)	USA	Both	Labour, yield loss, discarded milk, treatment and vet expenses, culling, infertility		A Numbers Game: Impact of Mastitis and High SCC	Zoetis: Dairy Wellness	Mark Kirkpatrick	Read the article	2018
CAD 662	per cow per year	Canada	Both	Yield, discarded milk, vet expenses, labour costs, culling and deaths, consumables and investments	19 % CM	Herd-Level Mastitis-Associated Costs on Canadian Dairy Farms	Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 May 14:5:100	Mahjoob Aghamohammadi et al.	Read the article	2018
UK 70 - 250	per cow per year	UK	Both	Yield, vet services, consumables	30 - 70% CM	Mastitis Part 1 - The Importance of Mastitis	Nadis Animal Health Skills	Richard Laven PhD BVetMed MRCVS	Read the article	2021
US 128 - 444 US 110	clinical mastitis per cow per year subclinical mastitis per cow per year	US	Both			Improve Milk Quality and Productivity with Effective Mastitis Prevention and Treatment	Mastitis Management - Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica		Read the article	2021
US 110	per cow per year	US	SCM	Yield, discarded milk, vet expenses, culling and deaths, decreased genetic gain,infertility		What is Mastitis Costing You?	The Cattle Site		Read the article	2020
EUR 16 -26 billion	Global dairy industry per annum per 271 million cows globally	Glasgow	Both			Potential biomarkers of mastitis in dairy cattle milk identified	Retrieved from https://phys.org/news/2016-07	University of Glasgow and the Moredun Research Institute	Read the article	2016
UK 170 million UK 225 UK 12,700	UK dairy industry per year per cow per year per herd of 120 cows	UK	Both	Milk yield, treatment cost, vet expenses, labour culling	0.47	Dairy farming: the cost of mastitis and the importance of control	Retreived from https://www.megalac.com/about/news/237	The Cattle Health and Welfare (reference)	Read the article	2020
AU 277	per cow per case	AU	CM	Milk yield, discarded milk, treament and vet expenses, mortality and culling		Managing Clinical Mastitis	Dairy Australia		Read the article	2020
NZ 180 million	NZ dairy industry per year, or $14,000 a farmer.	NZ	CM	Milk yield, labour, vet and treatment expenses		Big savings for farmers by conquering mastitis	NZ Herald	By: Stephen Ward et al.	Read the article	2006
NZ 180 million	NZ dairy industry per year	NZ	CM			Automated Mastitis Detection	Dairy NZ		Read the article	2021
NZ 180 million	NZ dairy industry per year, or 11,500 for an average herd of 315 cows	NZ	CM	Treatment, yield, discarded milk, labour, culling, SCC		What does mastitis cost?	Dairy Isight: Fact Sheet 3: Helping farmers produce better quality milk	Richard M Tiddy Consulting Veterinarian		2006
INR 1390	per cow per year (187 cows over 3 seasons from 28 farms)	Central India	SCM	milk yield, price per litre, discarded milk, vet and treatment costs, labour, prevention, consumables, investments		Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Animals: Incidence, Economics, and Predisposing Factors	Scientific World Journal. 2014; 2014: 523984.	Mukesh Kr. Sinha, N. N. Thombare, Biswajit Mondal	Read the article	2014
INR 2.37 thousand crore INR 6,053 crore INH 4,365 crore	Nationally Both CM and SM: Subclinical	India	Both	Yield, culling, fertility, treatment and vet expenses	SCM 15 - 40 times more prevalent than CM	A Review on Sub Clinical Mastitis in Dairy Cattle	International Journal of Pure & Applied Science	Tripti Kumari et al.	Read the article	2018