A PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF DAIRY FEEDING SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHEAST
| dc.creator | Winsten, Jonathan R. | |
| dc.creator | Parsons, Robert L. | |
| dc.creator | Hanson, Gregory D. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:20:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:12:36Z | |
| dc.description | This study analyzes the use and profitability of three distinct feeding systems; confinement feeding, traditional grazing, and management-intensive grazing from a randomly selected sample of northeastern dairy farms. The confinement feeding farms were significantly larger and produced more milk per cow, while the farms using management-intensive grazing incurred the lowest production costs. Both confinement feeding and management-intensive grazing generated significantly higher rates of return to farm assets relative to farms using a mixed system. Multiple regression analysis confirms the critical importance of herd size, milk production per cow, debt level and veterinary expenses to farm profitability in all production systems. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.31299 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31299/files/29020220.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31299 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/546468 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31299 | |
| dc.title | A PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF DAIRY FEEDING SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHEAST | |
| dc.type | Text |