한국과 미국의 낙농경영 비교 연구

A Comparative Study of Dairy Farm Management between Korea and U.S.A

This paper analyzed comparatively the dairy farming in Korea and U.S.A. The dairy farming in Korea is a low-tech small sized farm but that in U.S.A is a high-tech large sized farm. The scale economy of milk production is applied both to small sizes dairy of Korea and to large sized dairy of U.S.A. Therefore both countries are required to increase their dairy farm size to enlarge their competitive power in the dairy market. The dairy farming in Korea can be called a fabric type farming based on the mono cultivation and purchased feed. That in U.S.A can be called a farm type farming based on the complex cultivation and self-supplied feed. It will be difficult to increase the scale of Korean dairy farming, because the environment can be easily polluted under the fabric type farming and the environmental cost tends to increase. On the contrary the environment cost can be saved in the farm type farming and the scale of the dairy farming in U.S.A will easily be increased.