Indonesia's fresh milk production is only able to fulfil 22% of national milk demands. With growing milk consumption and the national target of fulfilling at least 60% of national demands from domestic production by 2025, boosting the productivity of dairy farms becomes important. This requires...

This paper analyses the factors driving structural change in Swiss dairy farming. We focus on the most important farm type in Switzerland, dairy farms, to examine which factors contribute to a farmer's decision to abandon farming or change to suckler cow farm type. Swiss dairy farming is...

US dairy futures markets of milk, butter, cheese, and dry whey exhibit unique volatility patterns under the Federal Milk Marketing Order pricing scheme. We show dairy volatilities have a relatively low connectedness among themselves and a commodity index. Dairy futures markets respond to...

In this study two scenarios are considered to study the digestate treatment process in which liquid fertilizer and compost are produced. The process simulation model by Aspen Plus have been utilized to simulate the anaerobic digestion (AD) process and the general properties of biogas and...

The aim of the research was to assess the changes (in dynamic terms between 2008 and 2017) in the productivity of farms specializing in milk production with the use of the Färe-Primont aggregated total factor productivity index. The total factor productivity index was divided into the...

There is a scarcity of studies on the colistin resistant and plasmid mediated colistin resistant Escherichia coli in sheep and goat worldwide. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of mobilized colistin resistant (mcr) gene E. coli in dairy sheep and goat...

This article investigates dairy farm investment behaviour and the presence of soft budget constraints in the dairy farms of Baltic and Central European transition countries - Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia - using individual dairy farm accountancy panel data for the years 2007–2015. The...

Purpose: This study aims at investigating how digitalisation (in the sense of industry 4.0) has changed the work of farmers and how they experience the changes from more traditional work to digitalised agriculture. It also investigates what knowledge farmers require on digitalised farms and how...

Based on unique primary surveys, we study dairy transformation processes in East Africa, specifically in Ethiopia and Uganda. Evidence on transformation and differential paths followed in doing so in these countries is often limited due to a lack of data. We note significant changes in the dairy...

Home-grown protein crops as an alternative to soya in dairy cattle meals, as well as other sustainable ethical-based practices, have been proposed to increase the sustainability of dairy production. Data on consumer acceptance of the three novel sustainable production strategies of...

The study compares the productivity change over time of organic and conventional dairy farms in Denmark between 2011 and 2018 using data envelopment analysis, and aims to identify which technology is superior. Productivity changes and the differences between organic and conventional frontiers in...

This study examines the impact of neighbourhood effects and individual farm characteristics on the decision process of organic dairy conversion in Norway, using a unique, spatially explicit farm-level panel set comprising information at the population level from 2003 to 2015. Our results reveal...

The paper presents the average results for the period 2018-2020 of 54 case studies conducted in dairy farms located in different geographical regions of Romania, different landforms and of different sizes. In terms of farm size, it is between 5.0 - 568.3 dairy cows (6,002.3 - 682,261.4 SO), of...

The paper presents the analysis of synthetic economic indicators from 2018-2020 for a number of 30 dairy farms in various areas of the country, which were the subject of case studies. The purpose of analyzing the indicators is to know the essence of the elements that contributed to obtaining...

The objective of this article is to assess the determinants of the technical efficiency of dairy processing firms in Southern Brazil while accounting for their different organizational forms, namely cooperatives and investor-owned firms. The data from 243 milk processors in southern Brazil,...

A total of 100 newly collected dairy cattle (after parturition) of which 20 local and 80 crossbred varieties of mini dairy farms from urban and semi-urban areas of Rajshahi district were selected for the study. They were divided into four groups depending on different feeding practices viz.,...

The efficiency of the livestock system is one of the factors of greatest social and economic interest in rural areas. The objective of the project was to evaluate different biological and economic indicators that allow identifying the most efficient dairy cows in grazing systems with...

Calcium deficiency in high yielding bovines during calving causes “milk fever” which leads to economic losses of around ₹ 1,000 crores (US $ 137 million) per annum in Haryana, India. With increasing milk production, the risk of milk fever is continuously rising. In the context, we aim to...

Impact of genotypes and parity on some vital reproductive and productive attributes in the local (L×L, n = 100) and four crossbred cows (L×F, L×SL, L×JR and L×S; n = 318) raised in randomly selected smallholder dairy farms scattered all over Natore District and adjacent areas have been...

We analyze the responses of dairy farmers in Israel to an institutional reform that allowed, for the first time, for buying and selling of production quotas, and provided financial incentives for such quota trading. Larger producers were less likely to sell quota and exit but also less likely to...

Dairy enterprise is recognized as an integral component of livestock that plays important role in the economy of an agricultural country like Bangladesh. Here some vital productive and reproductive attributes from 100 indigenous and 318 crossbred dairy cattle reared in mini dairy farms of Natore...

One of the foremost objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the European Union (EU) is to increase agricultural productivity through subsidization of farmers. However, little empirical research has been done to examine the effect of subsidies on farm performance and, in particular,...

It is critical to analyze the performance of enterprises to achieve sustainable agricultural development. Several studies have been conducted to assess farm performance. However, the studies have been criticized for failing to account for farm heterogeneity (which is frequently unobserved) in...

The coupled support is a production limiting system, which is granted under the form of an annual payment, to those sectors or regions in a Member State, where certain types of agriculture or certain agricultural sectors, which are very important from economic, social or environmental reasons,...