Economic Analysis of Beef Cattle Farms in Turkey

Abstract

Demircan, V., Koknaroglu, H., Yilmaz, H. and Dernek, Z. 2007

Economic Analysis of Dairy Cattle Farms in Turkey: A Case of Karacabey District

“…Thus, the third group farm has high relative profit and more advantage than other farm groups, and it is so important in terms of sustainability of farms of having high relative profit in farms. These results are consistent with the findings of some studies (Demircan et al, 2007;Keskin and Dellal, 2011).…”

“…The share in the total production costs in the fixed costs per farm was 38.33%. Similar results were reported in previous studies (Demircan et al, 2007;Gündüz and Dağdeviren, 2011;Semerci et al, 2015;Yılmaz et al, 2016;Oğuz and Yener, 2017). In these studies, the shares for variable costs and fixed costs were determined as 68.31 and 31.69%, 74.58 and 25.4%, 64.26 and 35.74%, 65.92 and 34.08% and, 72.02 and 27.98%, respectively.…”

“…The milk production cost per farm in district was found to be $41619.76. Similar results were reported in the previous studies (Semerci et al, 2015;Oğuz and Yener, 2017), but this value was found to be higher than the value reported in the previous studies in the literature (Demircan et al, 2007;Yılmaz et al, 2016). The unit milk cost of farms was found by dividing the amount of produced milk by the total production costs of farms (Table 4).…”

“…The concentrate feed costs had the largest ratio in both total production costs and total variable cost for all farm, and it was followed by roughage costs. In previous studies, the share of feed costs in the total production costs and total variable costs were calculated as 58.20% and 85.20% in Burdur province (Demircan et al, 2007), 57.05% and 71.35% in Biga province (Aktürk et al, 2010), 57.03% and 86.52% in East Mediterranean region (Yılmaz et al, 2016), 60.76% and 84.36% in Konya province (Oğuz and Yener, 2017), 49.83% and 90.36% in Eastern Anatolia region (Gençdal and Yıldırım, 2018). These results demonstrated that the ratio of feed costs in the total production costs of farms in Karacabey district was lower than those of others, and the share of feed costs in total variable costs of farms was higher than those of in Biga and in Konya provinces, but it was lower than those of in Burdur province, in East Mediterranean region and in Eastern Anatolia region.…”

“…In order to improve the activities of farms and to maintain their continuity, it is vital to increase the share of the income obtained from milk sales in the gross production value. Since, farms may have to withdraw from the market if this share decreases (Demircan et al, 2007). In this study, the gross production value was obtained from the dairy cattle activities in farms, which consist of milk sales, productive stock value and farm manure sales.…”