Table A1.

Spearman rank correlations (r_s) between metric farm factors considered in multivariable analysis.

Variables		Max. No of Cows per Group	Concentrates (kg/Cow*Year)	No of Cows per Stockperson	Contact Time per Cow	Voluntary Contact to Cows (%)	Voluntary Contact to Dry Cows (%)
Herd size	rs	0.895	0.106	0.458	−0.249	−0.146	−0.238
	p	0.000	0.615	0.021	0.229	0.487	0.253
Max. no of cows per group	rs		0.104	0.445	−0.360	−0.209	−0.274
	p		0.620	0.026	0.077	0.316	0.185
Concentrates (kg/cow*year)	rs			0.315	−0.008	−0.047	−0.014
	p			0.125	0.968	0.824	0.946
No of cows per stockperson	rs				−0.544	−0.252	−0.357
	p				0.005	0.225	0.080
Contact time per cow	rs					0.389	0.456
	p					0.055	0.022
Voluntary contact to cows (%)	rs						0.884
	p						0.000