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Organic farming

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	Dashboard organic agriculture		Organic livestock farming
	Organic crops		Result
	Comparison farm structure

Comparison farm structure - Dairy farming

Organic farms have a different farm structure, a more stable milk price, a similar income per unpaid annual work unit and a higher average sustainability score

27/08/2021

Comparison of economic performance and farm setup of organic and non-organic dairy farms by size, 2017-2019

		kleinere bio	kleinere gangbaar	kleinere signif.*	grotere bio	grotere gangbaar	grotere signif.*
Financial performance
Income	euro per unpaid AWU	17,526	24,521		52,833	52,855
Labour input	kg milk/hour	112	165	**	194	279	**
Cost price	euro/100 kg	63.65	47.34	**	51.14	39.08	**
Critical milk price	euro/100 kg	43.63	33.75	**	42.48	32.38	**
Milk price	euro/100 kg	49.67	39.03	**	50.2	38.41	**
Costs purchased feed	euro per cow	815	942		1,063	1,051
Veterinarian costs	euro per cow	48	99	**	68	105	**
Solvency	%	81	79		68	68
Long term debts	euro/kg milk	1.17	0.89	**	1.74	1.14	**
Farm setup
Dairy cows	number	51	60	**	119	143	**
Utilised agricultural area	ha	52	37	**	108	75	**
Share of grassland	%	93	87	**	96	82	**
Milk production per farm	kg	316,342	493,032	**	848,928	1,326,375	**
Milk production per cow	kg/cow	6,209	8,205	**	7,122	9,256	**
Milk production per ha	kg/ha	6,152	13,526	**	7,924	18,259	**

^a) *= p<0.05, **= P<0.01

Comparison of sustainability performance of organic and non organic dairy farms by size, 2017-2019

Indicator	Eenheid	kleinere bio	kleinere gangbaar	kleinere signif.*	grotere bio	grotere gangbaar	grotere signif.*
Animal health and welfare	Score (x 100)	60	59		57	58
Somatic cell count	1,000 cells per millilitre	221	169	**	244	169	**
Replacement rate dairy cows	%	24.1	27.4		22.2	27.3	*
Use of antibiotics	Average daily dose per animal year	0.2	1.6	**	0.3	2	**
Climate and energy	Score (x 100)	59	51	*	58	56
Energy use	MJ per 100 kg milk	71	59	*	62	57	**
Greenhouse gas emissions (cradle-to-farm-gate)	Kg CO2-eq per kg milk	1.26	1.35	**	1.29	1.31
Environment	Score (x 100)	69	59	**	70	59	**
Farm surplus	kg N per ha	27	142	**	47	142	**
Environmental load use of pesticides	Points soil	0	62	**	0	71	**
Environmental load use of pesticides	Points groundwater	0	65	**	0	75	**
Environmental load use of pesticides	Points surface water	0	81	**	0	112	**
Phosphate excretion	kg P2O5 per 1,000 kg milk	7.4	5.6	**	6.5	4.9	**
Ammonia emission barn and storage	kg NH3 per livestock unit	8.3	11.7	**	9.3	11.8	**
Ammonia emission application and grazing	kg NH3 per ha	17	29	**	14.5	32.4	**
Biodiversity and grazing	Score (x 100)	65	33	**	59	23	**
Number of forms of nature management	frequency (1 till max. 4)	2.4	1.2	**	2.5	1	**
Grazing (hours per cow per year)	hours	3,454	1,681	**	2,570	924	**

*= p<0.05, **= P<0.01
Source: Farm Accountancy Data Network.

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Van Wagenberg C.P.A., de Haas Y., Hogeveen H., van Krimpen M.M., Meuwissen M.P.M., van Middelaar C.E. en Rodenburg T.B., 2017. Animal Board Invited Review: Comparing conventional and organic livestock production systems on different aspects of sustainability. Animal 1-13. doi:10.1017/S175173111700115X.

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