Herd Level Yield Gap Analysis in a Local Scale Dairy Farming System: A Practical Approach to Discriminate between Nutritional and Other Constraining Factors.

dairy cow digestible dry matter income over feed cost limiting factors production ecology

Journal

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 Feb 2023
Historique:
received: 21 12 2022
revised: 30 01 2023
accepted: 01 02 2023
entrez: 11 2 2023
pubmed: 12 2 2023
medline: 12 2 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This study performed a yield gap analysis to help farmers understand whether their constraints were mainly due to nutritional factors or management and health issues. Twenty-nine farms were periodically evaluated. Milk yield (MY), dry matter intake (DMI), total mixed ration (TMR) composition and homogeneity index (HI), TMR digestibility, income over feed cost (IOFC), and MY summer-winter ratio (SWR) were collected. Farms were divided and compared according to the average annual MY: Low (L), Medium (M) and High (H), characterised by <31.1, 31.1-36.7 and >36.7 kg/head/day. An ANOVA mixed model and a stepwise regression to assess the relationship between nutritional variables and MY were run. H farms showed higher IOFC (

Identifiants

pubmed: 36766412
pii: ani13030523
doi: 10.3390/ani13030523
pmc: PMC9913683
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : NPM Tech Srl
ID : none
Organisme : Faresin Industries SPA
ID : none
Organisme : ITPhotonics.
ID : none

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Auteurs

Igino Andrighetto (I)

Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.

Lorenzo Serva (L)

Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.

Davide Fossaluzza (D)

Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.

Giorgio Marchesini (G)

Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.

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