Symposium: dairy farms in transition: Dairy cow culling strategies: making economical culling decisions

摘要

The purpose of this report was to examine impor- tant economic elements of culling decisions, to review progress in development of culling decision support systems, and to discern some of the potentially re- warding areas for future research on culling models. Culling decisions have an important influence on the Economic performance of the dairy but are often made In a nonprogrammed fashion and based partly on the Intuition of the decision maker. The computer tech- Nology that is available for dairy herd management Has made feasible the use of economic models to Support culling decisions. Financial components- Including profit, cash flow, and risk-are major eco- Nomic factors affecting culling decisions.