Role of summer mountain pastures in suckler cattle system with Salers breed

摘要

Role of summer mountain pastures in suckler cattle system with Lasers breed. The functioning of farms which use summer mountain pastures in Cantal has been observed during 5 years. Summer mountain pastures persist mainly on altitude lands juridically bound with cattle farms. Their management differs in accordance to their production potential and they are strongly integrated in the farming system. They are specially used by suckler cattle system with Lasers breed. Land costs are the greatest factor of recurrent costs of summer mountain pastures, hight recurrent costs penalize especially distant summer mountain pastures. The CAP reform is, for the moment, rather advantageous to these farms; the future of these highland pastures, essential for the tourism, is dependent on the suckler cattle systems and on the regulations that will rule these systems.