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  4. EMSS
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2020.emss.041

Economics of Dairy Farm: Simulation Study

  • a Marie Nedvědová ,
  • b Jaroslav Marek ,
  • c Alena Pozdílková ,
  • d Tomáš Haloun 
  • a,b,c University of Pardubice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Studentská 95, Pardubice, 532 10, Czech Republic
  • d Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Cite as
Nedvědová M., Marek J., Pozdílková A., Haloun T. (2020). Economics of Dairy Farm: Simulation Study. Proceedings of the 32nd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2020), pp. 288-295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2020.emss.041

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to estimate economic consequences of an LDA (Left displaced abomasum) treated cow. After a surgery to correct this displacement, cows had a lower average milk yield, lower reproduction characteristics, and consequently a lower number of lactation cycles, less calves, longer period between calving, compared to other cows. We will use breeding simulation with the help of a constructed function to describe the price aspects. Knowledge of analysis of diary milk-yield production, probability of survival, and ability to reproduce will be used. The Arena software will be used for the simulation. The main goal is to estimate the lifelong profit of an individual cow from a group of healthy cows and an individual cow from a group with LDA disease.

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