Costs For Wisconsin Dairies Using Rotational Grazing Practices: New Evidence From Agricultural Resource Management Survey Data
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Advocates for pasture-based dairying argue that this dairy production system requires less capital and labor resources than conventional, confinement-based, dairy systems. These reduced resource needs are supposed to translate into higher profits because lower use of capital and labor means lower production costs. Data for Wisconsin dairies obtained in 2000 as a part of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) presented on the web site of the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (ERS-USDA) do not appear to support the commonly held belief, however. The data generally show that in Wisconsin the lower costs of productions tend to be observed for conventional dairies, not grazing operations.
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