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标题：A PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF DAIRY FEEDING SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHEAST
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作者：Winsten, Jonathan R. ; Parsons, Robert L. ; Hanson, Gregory D. 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2000
页码：220-228
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：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.