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| Schrade, Sabine; Keck, Margret; Schick, Matthias. |
| 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... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Production systems. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/14248/1/Schrade_14248.pdf |
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