scholarly journals The Analysis of Production and Culling Rate With Regard to the Profitability in a Dairy Herd

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
József Horváth ◽  
Zsanett Tóth ◽  
Edit Mikó

Abstract As milk prices move away from production costs, dairy farms are under increased pressure to find ways to protect profitability on the farm. Producers have some problems that they can improve. Improve the milk production, produce more milk to sell focused on quality (reduce the amount of high level of somatic cell count). The deterioration of animal health status (lameness, mastitis and different metabolic disorders) can have a serious impact on cow productivity, causing pain and discomfort, production losses and might result in a decision to cull the animal. Improving herd reproductive performance is an important aspect of profitable farm management. The aim of this work is to analyse milk production, reasons of culling and culling rate in different lactation on a dairy cattle farm.

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. F. Wicks ◽  
A. F. Carson ◽  
M. A. McCoy ◽  
C. S. Mayne

AbstractTwenty-nine Holstein-Friesian and 20 Norwegian dairy herd replacements were used to investigate the effect of habituating heifers to the milking parlour environment prior to calving on subsequent lactational performance. The heifers commenced the study at 3 weeks prior to calving when they were allocated on the basis of breed, genetic merit and live weight to either a habituation or no habituation (control) treatment. Heifers were housed together in cubicle accommodation with grass silage offered ad libitum along with 1 kg of concentrates per head per day offered in the feeding passage (control treatment) or in the food managers in the milking parlour (habituation treatment). Animals in the habituation treatment were exposed to the full milking parlour routine once daily (afternoon milking) in a 20-point rotary herringbone parlour. Holstein-Friesian heifers averaged 2.6 kg/day more milk than the Norwegian replacements. Holstein-Friesian heifers also had higher fat and protein yields than Norwegian heifers, however they also lost more body condition during the first 3 months of lactation. Habituated heifers yielded on average 1.3 kg/day more milk (P < 0.001) than the control group of heifers over the first 100 days of lactation (26.7 v. 25.4 (s.e.d. 0.38) kg/day), with the difference being greatest in the first 2 to 3 weeks of lactation. In early lactation, animals on the habituation treatment lost more live weight (0.16 v. 0.02 (s.e.d. 0.061) kg/day) (P < 0.05) and body condition than those on the control treatment. Duration of milking was longer (P < 0.001) (378.4 v. 340.5 (s.e.d. 6.53) s) and milk flow rate slower (P < 0.001) (2.20 v. 2.46 (s.e.d. 0.041) kg/min) respectively for the habituation compared with control group. Somatic cell counts (SCC) were lower (P < 0.001) for habituation group (1.66 v. 1.79 (s.e.d. 0.037) log10SCC per ml), but there was no significant treatment effect on locomotion scores. Reproductive performance was lower for habituated heifers, with increased intervals to conception (P < 0.05) (102 v. 83 (s.e.d. 9.22) days). Habituating heifers to the milking parlour environment prior to calving increased milk production but appeared to have some detrimental effects on reproductive performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
dadang suherman ◽  
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Sutriyono Sutriyono ◽  
Riko Herdiansah ◽  
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...  

ABSTRACT The study was purposed to find out income and profitability was achieved by a Sumber Mulya dairy farm. Research was held in July – Agust 2018 in Sumber Mulya dairy farm Kepahiang. The methods used in this research is case study method. Primary Data obtained through interviews with the respondents and recording. Data obtained for time 12 months on technical aspects and financial data covering production costs, data revenue, income data, the amount of data the data the amount of milk production and livestock lactation. Secondary data retrieved from the data contained in these farms. Data analysis used analysis formulas use income and profitability ratios. The result showed that Sumber Mulya Dairy cattle farm was net incomeaverages per month is Rp. 5,427,176,91 with the number of 7.00 averagecows lactation flat tail. Total cost per month of Rp.10,032,823.29 Profitability achieved by the company said 10,78% profitable because the value of profitability is greater than the interest rate a bank of 4.35%. Key word : income, dairy farm, profitability, dairy farm, milk production


2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
S.M. Woods ◽  
A.F. Carson ◽  
A.R.G. Wylie ◽  
J.D. McEvoy

Nutrition during the rearing period has significant effects on subsequent milk production and reproductive performance of dairy herd replacements. Carson et al. (2002) reported that heifers reared to calve down at 620 kg, in contrast to 540 kg live weight, produced 11% more milk, lost more weight and body condition score (BCS) post-calving and had a 30 day longer calving interval. This suggests that a higher BCS at calving and/or a greater rate of BCS loss during lactation appear to be correlated with poorer fertility. The objectives of this experiment were to investigate the effect of (1) diet composition during the rearing period and (2) live weight at first calving on body size and condition score changes during the first lactation and to assess linkages with metabolic hormone concentrations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Beáta Blaskó ◽  
Krisztián Kovács ◽  
László Szőllősi ◽  
István Szűcs

Hungarian dairy farms went through significant changes in past two decades. The most significant changes were caused by our accession to the European Union in 2004. In Hungary milk production remarkably declined after EU accession due to the decreasing level of support and decreasing milk prices. Size of our dairy herd has been practically reducing since the political transformation (1989); meanwhile the relative yields per cow have been continuously increasing. Relatively low prices, high production costs and tightening quality requirements ousted several producers – mainly small farms - from the market in past years. Feeding cost represents the highest rate in cost structure of production, but animal health expenditures and various losses are also significant. Applied technology of the Hungarian dairies lags behind theWestern-European competitors’; in addition they have handicaps in efficiency and product innovation. Moreover Hungarian milk and milk product consumption is about half of the Union average. In 2007 at the University of Debrecen the opportunities and the problems of this sector were discussed in the framework of a research and development project entitled “Project-generating based on sector-specific innovation”.At this workshop farmers, experts and advisers shared their ideas which were all gathered. The main objective of our paper is to provide useful information for the decision makers and the most important members of the sector. Using the practically successful ideas plus the ideas based on previous experience a new strategic concept was created. To reach the objective of this paper we collected, synthesized and analysed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the dairy farms and performed a SWOT analysis. On the basis of this SWOT analysis we set up a well organised problem hierarchy which would help to identify the main weaknesses of the sector. This analysis gives a great framework for the researches and it also gives a useful tool for the decision makers to improve the competitiveness of the Hungarian dairy sector.


2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
P. Stojic ◽  
R. Beskorovajni ◽  
V. Pantelic ◽  
Z. Novakovic ◽  
S. Bojkovic-Kovacevic ◽  
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It is general knowledge that management influences results in cattle production to the highest extent, and that the culling of cows is a very good indicator of the success of farm management. A comparison of results of culling for first calving cows on farms with various levels of production in 2011 established differences both for the number of culled animals and the reasons for culling. On farms with higher levels of production, the share of first calving cows in overall culling was 25.9% or 4.5% less than on farms with a lower level of production, i.e. 4.8% less died, and 0.7% first calving cows had to be slaughtered, while 5.6% more first calving cows were culled for economic reasons. At both levels of production, dominant reasons for culling were diseases of the legs and hoofs, which can be linked to the tie stall system (more pronounced on farms with higher production) and metabolic disorders (more dominant on farms with lower production). Reproduction was a more considerable problem on farms with higher milk production, while culling due to selection was more pronounced on farms with lower production. In early lactation of first calving cows, regardless of the level of production, dominant reasons for culling on farms are leg and hoof problems and metabolic disorders (total: 55% i.e. 55.9%). When reasons for culling of first calving cows after 100 days of lactation are investigated, on farms with high production the significance of diseases of legs and hoofs remains almost unchanged, but culling due to reproduction grows to 28%. On farms with lower production, culling due to leg and hoof diseases is considerably reduced after 100 days of lactation, however culling due to selection is tripled (62%).


1988 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 534-537
Author(s):  
R. Niznikowski ◽  
Z. J. Tyszka ◽  
W. Janikowski

The effect of crossing of Polish Corriedale (C) sheep with East Friesian, Finnsheep (F), and Polish Heath sheep was analyzed. The utility of F1 crossbreds coming from C and prolific breed rams (given above) was confirmed. The F, crosses of C ewes and F rams were characterized by the best reproductive performance, high level of milk production and the small decrease of wool quality and quantity produced by the ewes, and good carcase quality of ram lambs.


Author(s):  
V.N. SUROVTSEV

Усиление глобальной конкуренции, необходимость одновременного наращивания объемов экспорта аграрной продукции и обеспечения продовольственной безопасности повышают требования к качеству принимаемых решений в отраслях сельскохозяйственного производства на всех уровнях управления. Анализ экономических показателей сельскохозяйственных организаций Ленинградской области показал, что и в регионах Северного Нечерноземья с невысоким агроклиматическим потенциалом комплексное освоение инновационных технологий в производстве и управлении, в том числе на основе цифровизации и биотехнологии, способно обеспечить высокий уровень эффективности производства молока. Развитие технологий приводит к динамичному росту объема создаваемой информации о животных и параметрах производственного процесса. Большие массивы данных формируют специальные приборы и оборудование датчики движения, сканеры упитанности, электронные весы для взвешивания животных в процессе их передвижений, компьютеризированные приборыавтоматы по индивидуальному анализу биохимического состава молока с отбором проб по специальным алгоритмам, что позволяет говорить о начале формирования в отрасли BIG DATE ( Больших Баз Данных ). Системы телекоммуникаций в хозяйствах, специальные алгоритмы сбора и анализа больших массивов данных создают возможность создания и использования цифровых моделейдвойников как отдельных животных и их групп, так и молочного животноводства в хозяйствах в целом, объединяя информацию со всех этапов производственнохозяйственных процессов в автоматическом или полуавтоматическом режиме. Определяющее влияние системы кормления на молочную продуктивность и здоровье животных, их воспроизводительные функции и продуктивное долголетие, на эффективность производства молока повышает актуальность разработки системы управления рубцовым пищеварением высокопродуктивных коров на основе современных исследований в сфере цифровых и биотехнологий, способной обеспечить синергетический эффект внедрения в производство результатов исследований в области генетики как коров, так и микроорганизмов, населяющих их рубец.Increasing global competition, need to simultaneously increase exports volume of agricultural products and ensure food security, increase requirements to quality decisions taken at all levels of management in the sectors of agriculture. Analysis of economic indicators in agricultural organizations in Leningrad Region, which is the leader of dairy cattle in Russia, showed that in the regions of Northern NonBlack Earth Region with a low agroclimatic potential, traditionally attributed to risk farming zone, integrated development of innovative technologies in production and management, including digital and biotechnology, is able to provide a high level of milk production efficiency. Development of technology leads to a dynamic increase in the amount of information created about animals and parameters of the production process. Special devices and equipment (motion sensors, fatness scanners, electronic scales for weighing animals during their movements, computerized automatic devices for individual analysis of milk biochemical composition with sampling using special algorithms, etc.) form large arrays of data, that allows us to say about the beginning of industry BIG DATE formation. Telecommunications systems in farms, special algorithms for collecting and analyzing large data arrays make it possible to create and use digital twin models for both individual animals and their groups, and dairy farming in farms as a whole, combining information from all stages of production and business processes in automatic or semiautomatic mode. The decisive influence of feeding system on milk productivity and animal health, their reproductive functions and productive longevity, on the efficiency of milk production, increases the relevance of developing a system for managing ruminal digestion of highly productive cows based on current research in digital and biotechnologies, able to provide a synergistic effect of introducing into production results of research in the field of genetics, both cows and microorganisms inhabiting their rumen.


2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Rafael de Oliveira Silva ◽  
Marcos Aurélio Lopes ◽  
André Luís Ribeiro Lima ◽  
Geraldo Márcio da Costa ◽  
Flávio Alves Damasceno ◽  
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The objective of this study was to comparatively analyse the profitability of compost barn and free stall milk-production systems as a means of helping producers and technicians choose the type of facility most suitable for each farm. Data collected from four farms from January to December 2016 were analysed; the data were distributed equally among compost barn and free stall systems. The cost of milk production was estimated according to the operating cost methodology and considering the milk production cost centre, which involved both lactating and dry cows. Additionally, gross and net margins were estimated as indicators of profitability. The results showed that the average gross and net margins were not influenced by the type of facility; they were positive in both of the production systems analysed. Among the components of the net operating cost, the proportion of the "medications" item was lower in the compost barn properties, while the cost of bedding for the cows was lower in the free stall farms. Depreciation and total operating cost were similar in the two systems. Milk sales made up a higher percentage of the revenue in the free stall farms, despite the high standard deviation, while the expectations of revenues from wastes were similar in the two production systems. Given that there were no significant economic differences between the types of facility, it is concluded that ease in management, productivity, reproductive performance, animal health (hoof injuries and mastitis), environmental issues, and availability of water and bedding material should be the motivators for choosing one system over the other.


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