낙농경영의 경제분석

An Economic Analysis of Dairy Farming

Enterprise, production function and cost function analyses were alpplied to 128 dairy farm records surveyed by the National Livestock Cooperatives Federation in 1997. Both production efficiency and herd size turned out to be going parallel. And farms with higher production efficiency were lower in fixed input and concentrate per cow than the otherwise. The results of production function analysis suggest that both concentrate and labor are overinvested, roughage is less than properly invested and miscellaneous cost is rationally invested. Optimum herd size of the sample farms appeared 36 heads in cow equivalent which by far exceeds the current cow herd size 16 heads.