creators_name: Fowler, Susan M
editors_name: Powell, Jane
editors_name: et al., 
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-10-23
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:32:08
metadata_visibility: show
title: Strategies for success – contrasting approaches to organic dairy
farming

ispublished: pub
subjects: 1dairy
subjects: 2farmecon
full_text_status: public
keywords: Colloquium of organic researchers, COR, economics, profitability, sustainability, management approach; dairy
abstract: This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Financial and some physical aspects of ten commercial dairy farms with different management approaches and at different stages of organic conversion were monitored, alongside two herds at a research farm. One herd at the research farm was managed to maximize profit, the other aimed for self-sufficiency to maximize sustainability. Dairy enterprise gross margins per forage hectare varied from £824 to £1,851/ha and overhead costs ranged from £606 to £1,022/ha on the commercial farms, illustrating the necessity for control of overhead costs as well as enterprise performance in achieving profitability on organic farms.
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference
publisher: Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
pagerange: 201-202
refereed: never
referencetext: Fowler, S.; Wynne-Jones, I.; Lampkin, N. (2001) Organic dairy farm incomes 2000/2001, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
MAFF (1998) Farm Incomes in the United Kingdom 1996/97; The Stationery Office: London.
UKROFS (2001) Standards for Organic Food Production, February 2001 ed.; UK Register of
Organic Food Standards: London

citation: Fowler, Susan M (2002) Strategies for success – contrasting approaches to organic dairy farming. UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Aberystwyth, 26-28 March 2002. In: Powell, Jane and et al., (Eds.) Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, pp. 201-202.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8271/1/fowler_approach_dairy.pdf