Conventional and Organic Farm Production in Slovenia

Th e aim of the research was the comparison of economic feasibility of most common conventional and organic farm production in Slovenia. Th e methodology of an integrated deterministic technologic-economic simulation system KARSIM 1.0 (DSM) application for cost analysis and decision-making support on farms is described in this article. Th e direct simulation model result is an individual conventional or organic farm product enterprise budget. Th e DSM consists of 148 deterministic production simulation models that enable diff erent types of costs and fi nancial feasibility calculations for conventional and organic production and food processing. Th e developed simulation model enables economical evaluation of some most important economic parameters (breakeven price, breakeven yield, fi nancial result, total revenue and coeffi cient of economics). In conventional farming system the most suitable farm product is potato (Ke = 1.52), followed by milk and maize production (Ke = 1.10), wheat production (Ke = 1.06) and suckling cows production (Ke = 1.02). Th e husked spelt production is in conventional farming system economically infeasible (Ke = 0.82). In organic farming system the most feasible farm product is husked spelt (Ke = 1.56), followed by potato (Ke = 1.15), milk (Ke = 1.04) and suckling cows production (Ke = 1.03). Maize (Ke = 0.90) and wheat production (Ke = 0.83) are economically infeasible.