the 5-year period of 1991 to 1996. The 1991 National Dairy Heifer Evaluation Project included herds of 30 or more milk … cows and heifer-rearing operations in 28 states representing 83 percent of U.S. milk cows. NAHMS Dairy '96 described dairy … production for operations with one or more milk cows in 20 states representing 83 percent of the nation's milk cows. This report …

.S. milk cows. Most dairy cows were culled for reasons associated with their inability to profitably produce high-quality milk … of cull cows from smaller herds. Use of specific milk production levels to determine timing of culling in combination …

this paper we analyze the influence of genetics on milk quality. For that purpose, we use a multi-output production model … in which milk quality is included as an additional output in milk production. A distance function is used to estimate … empirically the contribution of genetics to milk quality. For that purpose, we use a panel data of 96 dairy farms in Asturias …

general overview of milk production in the country, followed by a detailed study of dairy farming in the in the northern … provided. The study concludes that milk production from bovines in Bangladesh is not competitive internationally and that under … increase in milk demand predicted to occur over the next ten years unless productivity is significantly improved. …

appears that there is a large potential to reduce milk production costs of smallholder dairy farming and increase family farm … income through milk production by better breed, feed and herd management. Although milk yields in Orissa are much lower than … in Haryana, farmers in Orissa produce milk at competitive costs due to lower land costs and lower wage rates. The …

development. The contribution is focused on production and realization of Czech milk and milk products after the EU enlargement … and should answer the question if the Czech milk sector found the way for continual functioning in the frame of the EU …

represented 83.1 percent of the U.S. milk cows as of January 1, 1996. NASS interviewers collected data for Part I via a …

chain level data. In this paper, we focus on the retail sale patterns of two retail milk prices in a New Member State (NMS … a clear difference between storable milk and boxed milk patterns. …