CARACTERIZAÇÃO DA BOVINOCULTURA LEITEIRA DO MUNICÍPIO DE MORRINHOS,
ESTADO DE GOIÁS, BRASIL
This work was carried out with small farmer (up to 150 L/day), medium (150 to 300 L/day) and large (up to 300 L/day) size of the milk productivity, with the aim of characterizing the dairy production city of Morrinhos - GO. We were used 20 variables collected through of information of questionnaires applied to 40 dairy farms. Results showed that the average production (liters/cow/year) was higher than the national average, with of 7.80, 8.66 and 14.55 L/cow/day for the three groups, respectively. Use of area was higher for the group of large producers (19.26 L/ha/day), compared to 3.14 L/ha/day (small producers) and 4.74 L/ha/day (medium producers). As regards the quality of milk produced, only small farmers have achieved the minimum amount of CCS required for Normative Instruction 62 of Brazil, obtained 381.680 CCS/ml. For CBT, all were above to stipulated, where the three groups obtained, respectively, 830,860, 899,580 and 318,690 colony-forming/ml. The three groups were with protein percentage of 3.25% (small farmer), 3.28% (medium farmer) and 3.25% (larger farmer) and fat percentage of 3.51, 3.74%, and 3.80% for 3 103 Colloquium Agrariae, vol. 13, n. Especial 2, Jan–Jun, 2017, p. 102-109. ISSN: 1809-8215. DOI: 10.5747/ca.2017.v13.nesp2.000214 groups, respectively. It is concluded that specialized and non-specialized farmers form dairy farming of city of Morrinhos.