Impact of environmentally friendly technologies on costs and cost-effectiveness of a dairy cattle confinement system

Our goal was to assess the economic impact of some environmentally friendly technologies on production costs and cost-effectiveness a dairy cattle confinement system, estimating environmental their representativeness in both effective total operating costs, as well cost. We assessed cost center milk identified components that most affect final break-even point (kg year-1) well. The data were collected freestall full-confinement system farm located southern Minas Gerais State (Brazil), from January 2016 December 2017. estimated using method based involving lactating dry cows. showed be economically feasible, showing positive gross net margin results, profitability cost-effectiveness. Total average R$ 0.015 per kg milk, which represented 1.985% Effective 0.0059, corresponded 0.7788% Finally, 0.0317, representing 3.3280% representative items descending order: animal feed, workforce, health, hormone (bovine somatotropin; bST), vehicle maintenance, machines equipment, maintenance improvements, electricity, bedding sand. Average 1,104,038.54 year-1 or 3,024.76 day-1, while 4,271,383.00 11,702.42 day-1.