Organic farming which experienced a constant rise over the last two decades is a system based on sustainability and on a concept tending towards functional integrity. Legislation as well as the wish to produce separately from conventional farming raise the question whether organic farming should be conducted completely apart from conventional farming or not. This paper discusses the aspects tha...

As the farming landscape changes, farmers are now more than ever required to be in control of their farming businesses. The successful extension program, Feeding Pastures for Profit (FPFP), supports dairy farmers through providing the principles, skills and tools to make profitable feed management decisions on a daily basis. Aside from increasing the profitability of participants in the program...

Technical efficiency has been widely studied in the literature, but in its pursuit, many of the inputs used can impact on the environment. Environmental effects can be modelled as undesirable output or, as has been the case in more recent studies, as conventional inputs. This paper examines the concept of environmental efficiency and how it can be used to evaluate the performance of Australian ...

Leitner, G. 162 INTRODUCTION Economic pressure drives modern dairy farmers to exert continuous efforts to maximize profitability. This is achieved by constant improvement of genetic selection, nutrition, and herd management. Modern dairy farms are characterized by high levels of computerized data acquisition, which provides on-line information on cows' milk yield, milk composition and body weig...

Karen Hiestand grew up in New Zealand where the family business was dairy farming. Her desire to be a vet was fixed at the age of seven, but, after qualifying, the reality of practice wasn't quite what she expected. Having made the decision to move out of practice, she found that there are many other ways to use a veterinary education.

A more closed farming system may prevent introduction of infectious diseases on dairy farms and can be a good starting point for eradication of these diseases. In an exploratory study it was calculated that being >open= had a negative influence on net profit of almost Dfl 1 per 100 kg of milk. A survey was carried out to make up an inventory of the existing more or less closed farming systems i...

Für die Implementierung der annotationsbasierten Geschäftsmodellierung ist es notwendig, die erforderlichen Bedingungen nach bestimmten Kriterien zu erstellen. Grundlage dafür ist ein Sprachraum, aus welchem die in den Bedingungssätzen enthaltenen Begriffe entnommen werden. Dieser Sprachraum besteht im Wesentlichen aus Konzepten und Klassen, die diese Konzepte repräsentieren, sowie Fakttypen. D...

Aus dem Konzept des Precision Dairy Farming leiten sich hohe Anforderungen an die Gestaltung der Informationsverarbeitung ab. Grundlage einer Umsetzung kann nur eine integrierende und konsistente Datenbasis sein. Neben prozessorientierten, betriebsinternen Aufgaben müssen ebenso erweiterte, überbetriebliche Belange Berücksichtigung finden. Erster Schritt zur Entwicklung eines angepassten Datenm...