Assessment of profitability and break-even points in suckler cow herds

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F18%3A76632" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/18:76632 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00027014:_____/18:N0000057

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201866030707" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201866030707</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201866030707" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201866030707</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of profitability and break-even points in suckler cow herds

Original language description

Suckler cow enterprises comprise an important segment of Czech agriculture, and the number of suckler cows has been steadily increasing in recent years. The objective of this study was to assess the profitability of suckler cow herds in the Czech Republic based upon data collected for 2014, 2015, and 2016 using a questionnaire covering production, reproduction, and economic traits. The average yearly costs reached 30,583 CZK per cow. When subsidies in the average amount of 14,347 CZK per cow were included, profitability of 8,3, 8,7, and 6,3 % was observed in 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. Feed, labour, depreciation, and overheads were the largest cost items and together comprised 66 % of total yearly costs. The data obtained proved the economy of scale. Average break-even points were determined for the number of weaned calves, calving interval, and selling price of calves (75 calves, 465 days, and 56 CZK / kg live weight, respectively). A sensitivity analysis identified the number of weaned calv

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40201 - Animal and dairy science; (Animal biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1510191" target="_blank" >QJ1510191: Economic models for herd management evaluation and optimalization</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

707-715

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85049888846