Profitability of dairy and suckler cows breeding on Czech farms

Doucha, T.; Foltyn, Ivan; Humpál, J.

doi:10.17221/181/2011-agricecon

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“…However, the profitability change was less volatile in the mixed farms. A significant change in profitability was recognized in the year 2008 for both types of farms, but for the mixed farms the most significant negative probability change was in the year 2009, similarly to Doucha et al (2012). This was due in particular to an output price decrease connected with crises in the EU commodity market (see the price output component in Figures 1 and 2).…”

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“…Besides these subsidies, dairy farms are also supported by the Single Area Payment Scheme and gain advantages in the investment support. Doucha et al (2012) added that the profitability of milk production would be negative without these subsidies. On the other hand, under the suppositions, the total profitability of milk production can be relatively high (about 10%).…”

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“…The performance of Czech dairy farms has been analysed in only a few studies (see Foltýn et al 2009;Frelich et al 2011;Perný and Kubíčková 2011;Doucha et al 2012;Čechura et al 2014;Špička and Smutka 2014) and these studies usually measured the performance physically by the total factor productivity and technical efficiency. Kumbhakar and Lien (2009) pointed out that the maximization of productivity growth might not correspond with the profit maximization that is the goal of most producers.…”

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Profitability development of Czech dairy farms

Kroupová¹

2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e paper deals with the development and main determinants of the profi tability of Czech dairy farms. Th e aim of the paper is to evaluate the diff erences in the dynamics of profi tability for two types of milk producers -specialized dairy farms and mixed farms -within the context of the agricultural policy changes. Th is aim is achieved by decomposing profi tability into output growth, output and input price changes, changes in decoupled subsidies, technical change, scale, mark-up, and technical effi ciency change components based on input distance function estimation. Based on the panel data obtained from the FADN database in the time period 2004-2011, it was found that the change in profi tability was positive in the analysed time period, and slightly higher for the specialized dairy farms than for the mixed ones. Th e changes in output price, mark-up component and technical change are the main determinants of the development of profi tability. Agricultural policy measures had diff erent eff ects on these components. Th e strongest correlation was between the operational subsidies and the technical change and technical effi ciency change, and this correlation was negative.

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Profitability development of Czech dairy farms

Kroupová¹

2016

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“…The average of all area supports per hectare of grasslands reached 15 thousand CZK (approximately € 600) in 2011. In spite of terrible unprofitability of the extensive beef production, such a support is perceived to be inadequate, generating excessive profits particularly on large extensive farms (Doucha et al 2012a). …”

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The Future of Grasslands and Beef Cattle in the Czech Republic

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Boudný²,

Bošková³

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Grasslands received policy attention in the Czech Republic only just fifteen years ago, when they were threatened to be abandoned in the economic transition process. The supports to farming on grasslands have grown gradually, particularly after the EU accession. The policy followed the notion of jointness between grassland management and beef cattle raising and conditioned Agri-environmental (AE) and Less Favoured Areas (LFA) payments by a minimum livestock density. There are many reasons why the current policy will change in the new programme period. This paper attempts to assess the impact of the envisaged changes on grassland maintenance. It is showed that overall future supports to farming will be sufficient to keep positive profit on grassland farms, however the structure of supports might be less appropriate to the actual objectives of grassland protection and hence, there is a threat of policy failure in the end.

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“…Payment support is also an important element inasmuch as the suckler cow herds are mostly unprofitable and unsustainable over the long term without subsidies (Wolfová et al 2004;Jones 2007;Boudný and Janotová 2012). Support for the suckler cows at the time of the data analysis included mainly the following payments (Doucha et al 2012 The objectives of this study were to assess the profitability of suckler cow herds in the CR based on the data acquired at the farm level and the subsequent model calculations, to determine the break-even points, and to evaluate the impact of various factors, including payment supports, on the overall profitability of the system. In addition, we investigated farmers' views of different factors influencing the economic performance of their operations.…”

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Economic efficiency of suckler cow herds in the Czech Republic

Syrůček¹,

Kvapilík²,

Bartoň³

et al. 2017

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Th e objective of the study was to assess the profi tability of suckler cow herds located in diff erent regions of the Czech Republic. Data on 2164 suckler cows were collected for 2013 from 20 beef farms using a questionnaire and the covered production, reproduction, and economic traits. Model calculations were used to determine the level of profi tability with support payments either included (2.15%) or excluded (−45.5%). Break-even points defi ned as the points when the operation reaches zero profi tability were estimated for the number of calves weaned and sold (81 calves/100 cows) and for the selling price of calves (54.6 CZK/kg). Fixed cost as a proportion of the total costs was reduced with the increasing herd size. Based on the results of a sensitivity analysis, the selling price for calves, the number of calves weaned the calving interval, and the amount of support payments were identifi ed as the factors with the highest impact on the overall herd profi tability.

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Profitability of dairy and suckler cows breeding on Czech farms

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Profitability development of Czech dairy farms

Profitability development of Czech dairy farms

The Future of Grasslands and Beef Cattle in the Czech Republic

Economic efficiency of suckler cow herds in the Czech Republic

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