Economic Opportunities for Dairy Cow Culling Management Options

Economic Opportunities for Dairy Cow Culling. Management Options. Recent reports indicate that dairy cows account for about 8 percent of U.S. domestic beef ...

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR DAIRY COW CULLING ...

Title ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR DAIRY COW CULLING MANAGEMENT OPTIONS ; Keywords. NAHMS; dairy; cattle; monitoring; epidemiology; production; economics; culling; ...

Catalog Record: Economic opportunities for dairy cow culling...

Economic opportunities for dairy cow culling management options / United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Economic Opportunities For Dairy Cow Culling Management Options

Due to a lack of national information about cull dairy cows, the USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Dairy '96 Study investigated ...

Dynamics and Strategies for Culling in a Dairy Herd

Culling is an inevitable management practice on any dairy operation and depending on cull cow prices can represent 5 to 15% of a dairy's gross income. Culling ...

Dairy Cow Culling Strategies: Making Economical Culling Decisions

The computer technology that is available for dairy herd management has made feasible the use of economic models to support culling decisions. Financial ...

Cow Culling Decisions: Costs or Economic Opportunity?

Production measures, such as milk/cow/day, pregnancy rate, and cull rate are also often used as indicators of both production performance and ...

Have Your Cows Repaid their Debts? - Penn State Extension

In dairy herds with improved management, culling is highly reflective of economic factors such as milk price, replacement price, and cull cow ...

Dairy cow longevity and farm economic performance: Evidence from ...

The longevity of dairy cows is mainly determined by farmers' subjective culling decisions and can be linked to the environmental impact of ...

Reasons for Culling Dairy Cows - Partners In Reproduction

Long calving intervals result in reduced annual economic revenue. · High somatic cell counts and many clinical mastitis cases have a negative effect on ...

Cow Longevity Economics - Cost Benefits of Keeping a Cow in the ...

Involuntary culling of cows early in lactation is expensive, in the order of $500 to $1000 (380 to 760 EURO) per cow (US data).

Economic opportunities for dairy cow culling management options ...

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Keeping Dairy Cows for Longer: A Critical Literature Review on ...

Cow culling decisions: Costs or economic opportunity?; Proceedings of the Western Dairy Management Conference; Reno, NV, USA. 7–9 March 2007; pp. 173–187 ...

Economic Opportunities for Dairy Cow Culling Management Options ...

Economic Opportunities for Dairy Cow Culling Management Options APHIS Veterinary Services info sheet. Contributors, United States. Animal and Plant Health ...

A focus group study exploring dairy farmers' perspectives of cull cow ...

A regular and required practice in the dairy industry is the culling of cows, with roughly 30% of an average dairy herd being culled in North America and ...

Scale Economies Provide Advantages to Large Dairy Farms

Gross returns include milk sales, plus revenues from the sale of culled dairy animals, milk cooperative dividends, and the fertilizer value of ...

Dairy Cow Culling Strategies: Making Economical Culling Decisions

A significant opportunity exists to improve dairy herd efficiency and profitability through improved culling management with negligi- ble effect on the rate of ...

Invited Review: The welfare of cull dairy cows

Economic and Management Factors. Culling is a complex management ... Simplified diagram showing potential options for the management of cull dairy cows.

Should She Stay Or Go? - Bovine Veterinarian -

Culling costs are often simplified to the slaughter value of the cow minus the rearing or purchase cost of the replacement. However, determining ...

An Empirical Analysis on the Longevity of Dairy Cows in Relation to ...

The decision to cull a cow is primarily driven by economic considerations as made by the farmer. Therefore, dairy replacement management decisions largely ...