Arbeitszeitbedarf in der Mutterkuhhaltung unter kleinstrukturierten Produktionsbedingungen

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There was a lack of up-to-date statistics on the working time requirements in suckler
cattle farming under Swiss production conditions. A combination of final and causal
methods for recording working time was used to determine working-time input and
working-time requirements, to survey influence variables and draw up working-time
models using a model calculation system. The total working time spent on suckler
cattle farming varied between 28 and 120 hours per cow per year, with an average of
66 hours per cow per year. Over half of this time was spent on routine work, 20 % on
management work, 19 % on other non-daily work and 3 % on direct marketing, animal
care and animal handling, respectively. The larger the herd size, the lower the time
spent on winter routine work. Feeding systems such as ad-libitum feeding in racks or
self-feeding at the bunker silo have a positive effect on working time requirements.
Besides herd size, factors such as the housing system, process engineering, type of
production, available working time, intensity of production and farm management also
have a significant effect on working time.