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The quality of roughage and money

Each product goes through certain stages of the life cycle. First, its development involveы enthusiasts. When the product begins to make a profit, they want to do everything.

Employees are our most important asset

In each issue, we talk about the best international practices. This time, we share an experience of independent consultant from the United States Lindell Whitelock on example of a dairy farm Larson Acres. For many years, he accompanied the project and is convinced that the effectiveness of the farm is based on two things — the right personnel policies and successful reproduction. These issues will be covered in two materials, but first — PERSONNEL.

Benchmarking in the dairy business

Denis Sergienko, Counseling Center ADM

You can only manage what you can measure.

Peter Drucker Ferdinant

My own history with a comparative economic analysis of milk production began in 2013, when I worked as the head of an agricultural enterprise. It was interesting to compare our farm with the other, which may work more effectively. And it was not just the operating parameters (eg, milk yield), but also the cost of production, the level of conversion costs for feeding in revenue from the milk and others.

Managing a modern dairy farm

Teluk Sergii, consultant in dairy farming technologies CC ADP

Among the main trends of the dairy business in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries, witnessing reduction in the number of old dairy farms, is their reconstruction or new construction.

The end justifies the means

Selection and genetic work is the basis for the future productivity of the herd. Taking the right selection decisions and using the best bulls for the next generation of cows, the manufacturer creates the perfect herd, which will run for a long time.

Denis Sergienko: «Flawless technology of growing and harvesting of roughage is our best investment»

Subject cost of milk will remain relevant as long as we do not learn to manage it properly. The biggest item of expenditure in the cost structure of milk production is feed (60-65%), including gross (20-25%). They are the reserve, which are often underestimated.

Economy of milk production once again on the agenda

The crisis is forcing milk producers carefully analyzе each line item and look for that crack, through which profit «runs». About what kind of methodology Austrian farmers use, says an employee of Research Institute Raumberg Gumpenshtayn Johann Häusler.

Revival of organic: the economy of application

Taras Degodyuk, a consultant on the use of organic fertilizers;

Sergei Bobyk, Marketing Manager, LLC «AG-BAG-Ukraina»

The fact that cattle manure is a fertilizer that is able to improve the efficiency of agricultural enterprises, and together with other organic matter in the future to make a serious competition to chemical fertilizers — difficult to argue.

Highlighting the key points: harvesters, trailers or round balers

According to the company «Klaas Ukraine»

To reduce the cost of production of roughage experts advise farmers to grow grass (cereal or legumes) as close as possible to the place of silage pit. And what to do when the fields under fodder crops for various reasons, are at a distance of 10 or 20 kilometers? However, under these conditions, it is possible to prepare silage with minimal cost.

Revival of organic: bedding from manure

Taras Degodyuk, a consultant on the use of organic fertilizers Ltd. "AG-BAG-Ukraina"

Recent calculations of the economic efficiency of mineral fertilizers have shown that due to rising prices of chemical products used in their farms become less profitable than it was at the beginning of last year.

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