A program designed to improve production efficiency.
Dairy herd improvement programs (DHI) formalized in the early 20th century, though women performed the majority of daily milk testing and record-keeping labor. Credit systems and extension publications typically featured male farmers while women's technical contributions went unnamed.
Use as-is; acknowledge that women dairy farmers and technicians were essential architects of these programs.
Women were frontline operators in DHI—testing, recording, analyzing data—yet official histories centered male breeders and veterinarians as program architects.
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