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| Callow, Mark N.; Gobius, N.; Hetherington, G.. |
| Milk producers in northern Australia are attempting to make rapid adjustments to production systems that enable them to compete in a newly deregulated market, although there is uncertainty about how to do this. Through industry consultation and expert review a process was developed to identify production systems that may be capable of supporting economic targets of 10% return on assets and 600,000 L milk/labour unit. A broadly based project team in terms of disciplines then used this process to identify five production systems which were each applicable to substantial numbers of current milk producers. These were modelled using whole farm economic analyses and annual feed planning, using an iterative process over an extended period, to determine the... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Farmers; Learning; Farm management education; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123138 |
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