Structural characteristics of organic dairy farms in four European countries and their association with the implementation of animal health plans

Blanco‐Penedo, Isabel; Sjöström, Karin; Jones, Philip; Krieger, Margret; Duval, Julie; Soest, F. van; Sundrum, Albert; Emanuelson, Ulf

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2019.03.008

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“…The typology was similar to other farms found in different states in Mexico with high levels of marginalization, low dependence on external inputs, and very low technological level [24][25][26][27][28][29] (Table S1), but with strong contrasts in regard to production scale, and gross incomes. In contrast, typologies from developed countries showed a medium-high technological level, high dependence on external incomes, and low marginalization level [11,12,17].…”

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“…Therefore, this research contributes to country level and can be generalized to other similar contexts. Multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis were used [11,12,21]. Five identified groups were characterized according to adopted technologies; 45 technologies grouped in the areas of management, feeding, genetics, reproduction, and animal health.…”

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“…However, the farms require enhancing the areas of animal health and feeding. Improving technologies such as health planning, parasite diagnosis, mastitis, and sanitary milking would be necessary for animal health [12,17,22,26]. In the animal feeding area, it will be necessary to increase the use of green fodder, use of agro-industrial by-products, fodder preserved as silage or hay, processed feeding, salt and vitamins blocks, molasses/urea, grains and oilseeds, and mineral blocks [27,30,31].…”

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“…Nor was the technological level associated to ecological zone. Possibly, the technological level was associated to the productive level in each cluster [5,8,12,13].…”

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“…A review of the main studies focused on the typologies of DP farms in ALC countries can be seen in supplementary materials (Table S1). However, they involve some methodological shortcomings such as: (a) In general, very unequal farms are compared (intensive with subsistence farms), resulting in predictable groups and classified as a supposed dual purpose [8]; (b) the farms are unequal regarding size and technologies, so, large, medium or small farms could prevail [6]; (c) in the principal components analysis (PCA), the number of variables is usually limited to the first two or three components [2,5]; (d) PCA or factorial analysis (FA) and cluster analysis are generally used, although there are other efficient methodological approaches with qualitative variables as multiple correspondence analysis (CMA) [11,12]; (e) the typologies are frequently elaborated at a local level, but typologies of country level or ecological zones are nonexistent [2,6,11,13].…”

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Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

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Dual-purpose cattle smallholder farms (DP) exhibit a critical economic situation. The objective of this research was building a typology for DP in tropical conditions and characterizing them technologically. This will help developing more effective public policies in DP farms located in tropical conditions. A sample of 1.475 farms located in the tropical area of Mexico was selected. The typology was built using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Subsequently, five groups were identified by a hierarchical cluster analysis with Ward's method. Groups 1 and 2, covered a 46.5% of the farms; these ones presented a small-scale productive model with low levels of technological adoption, improvements were mainly associated to the area of reproduction and genetics. Very small farms (Group 3) showed orientation to subsistence. They need to improve all the technological areas. Groups 4 and 5 (29.4% of the sample) were the biggest and more specialized farms. Group four farms were located in dry tropics and showed the highest levels of technological adoption in the areas of reproduction, management, and feeding. These farms require improvement in the areas of reproduction, animal health, and feeding. Group 5 farms were located in the wet tropics and showed specialization in reproduction, genetics, and animal health areas. In this last group, it is necessary to improve management and feeding areas.

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“…Nor was the technological level associated to ecological zone. Possibly, the technological level was associated to the productive level in each cluster [5,8,12,13].…”

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Modeling heat stress under organic dairy farming conditions in warm temperate climates within the Mediterranean basin

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We studied the effect of heat stress on milk quality in Spanish organic dairy farms using published milk productivity equations. We collected data from 23 weather stations and 14,424 milk test-days for milk yield and milk fat and protein content for the period July 2011 to June 2013. As an indicator of heat stress, we used the maximum daily temperature-humidity index (THI) from 2 days before the milk test date. We fitted the data using hierarchical regression models stratified by farm, cow parity and monthly testday milk records. The effect of THI was deemed low on biological costs through milk yield. However, the known negative relationship between milk yield and milk quality (protein and fat content) became even steeper when the THI increased, suggesting a significant negative correlation between heat stress and milk quality. Therefore, although the milk yield of cows in the organic farming systems analyzed appeared resilient to heat stress conditions, milk quality, a major selling point for organic dairy products, was negatively affected. The model presented here could be used to predict the potential impacts of different climate change scenarios on dairy farming, and to delineate adaptation strategies within organic systems.

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Structural characteristics of organic dairy farms in four European countries and their association with the implementation of animal health plans

Abstract: Structural characteristics of organic dairy farms in four European countries and their association with the implementation of animal health plans. Agricultural Systems, 173. pp. 244253.

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Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

Structural and Technological Characterization of Tropical Smallholder Farms of Dual-Purpose Cattle in Mexico

Modeling heat stress under organic dairy farming conditions in warm temperate climates within the Mediterranean basin

A cluster analysis on the potential of livestock farming: Türkiye in a global context

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