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- Title
Szenzoros automatikus állatmegfigyelő rendszer bevezetésének egyes gazdasági kérdései egy intenzív tejtermelő tehenészetben.
- Authors
Ivanyos, Dorottya; Fogarassy, Csaba; Szádvári, József; Ózsvári, László
- Abstract
Background: On dairy farms as economic units, the primary goal is to increase the economic profit. Precision Dairy Management (PDM) real-time monitoring systems, which assist and complement the farmer's sensory observations and contribute to the effectiveness of individual cow treatments, allow the farmer to respond quickly and gain greater control over the animal health conditions affecting profitability. Objectives: The aim of the study was to survey the change of the major production parameters after the introduction of a sensor-based animal monitoring system (AfiMilk™) and the impact of the investment on the farm profitability. Materials and Methods: The study took place on an intensive dairy farm with 1,500 Holstein-Friesian cows in Central-Hungary, where a sensor-based animal monitoring system was introduced in January 2019. In the economic analysis we used the partial budgeting method and we calculated the changes in the losses caused by clinical mastitis, premature culling and excess insemination, and in the net income due to the non-optimal calving interval between the period of two years before the introduction of the new system (the average of 2017-2018) and the first year of its operation (2019). Results and Discussion: After the introduction of the sensor-based animal monitoring system, the daily milk yield increased by 2.4 kg and the daily milk production per cow by 1.5 kg, respectively, while the somatic cell count decreased by nearly 65,000 cells/ml and the calving interval by 13.6 days, respectively. In the economic analysis the losses due to clinical mastitis decreased and the annual net milk receipts due to the shorter calving interval increased significantly. In contrast, the costs of premature culling and that of extra inseminations grew in 2019, but these negative economic items were much smaller than the increase in the total revenue of the farm. In total, after the introduction of the sensor-based animal monitoring system, the annual net income per cow increased by more than 44,000 HUF (120.5 EUR, 1 EUR = 365 HUF) in 2019.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; MILK yield; ECONOMIC research; DAIRY farms; PROFIT; AGRICULTURAL intensification; MOSQUITO nets
- Publication
Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja, 2020, Vol 142, Issue 12, p707
- ISSN
0025-004X
- Publication type
Article