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EFEITO DO TIPO DE SISTEMA DE CRIAÇÃO NOS RESULTADOS ECONÔMICOS DE SISTEMAS DE PRODUÇÃO DE LEITE NA REGIÃO DE LAVRAS (MG) NOS ANOS 2004 E 2005

2007; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22004/ag.econ.109706

1809-6891

Marcos Aurélio Lopes, Milton Ghedini Cardoso, Francisval de Melo Carvalho, André Luiz Ribeiro Lima, Alessandra Silva Dias, Eliane Almeida do Carmo,

Soil Management and Crop Yield

The profitability of the milk activity was studied in the region of Lavras, MG by analyzing the influence of the types of breeding system upon the cost production of milk. It was identified the components with major influence on the final cost of the activity and calculated the breakeven point. Monthly data from 17 production systems representing the grazing regimen, semi-feedlot and feedlot systems were used for the period of January 2004 to December 2005. It was considered the gross margin, the net (profit or loss) as indicators of economical efficiency. The type of breeding system influenced the “weights’’ of the component items of the effective operational cost ofdairy business, these being different in each of the three levels studied. In the economical analysis, the feedlot and semi-feedlot presented showing that dairy is profitable in the long-term and that farmers are positive net margin. In the grazing regimen, the conclusion is that milk farmers have conditions to produce in the middle-term. in the long-term; however, milk farmers have been losing money. KEY-WORDS: Breakeven point, breeding system, dairy cattle, production cost, profitability analysis.