Economic Analysis of Dairy Cattle Farms Izmir Province of Turkiye

The aim of this study was to cover the economic analysis of dairy cattle farms in Turkey. The research data were obtained from face-to-face surveys of 102 dairy farms selected from the Izmir province of Turkey by stratified random sampling method in 2014. Farmers are divided into three groups according to their number of cows. According to the results of the study, as the farm size increase. daily milk yield per dairy cattle, milk production in the lactation period, and milk sales price increase. There are also positive relationships between farm size and forage planting area and the proportion of forage planting area within the total planting area. Moreover, the most common forage of cattle breeders in the province was the silage corn with 48.7%. Fixed costs accounted 12.6% of total cost and fall sharply as farm size increases. Feed costs accounted for a remarkably high proportion of total variable costs (85.1%). The Benefit-Cost Ratio was 1.84, which was increasing with the farm size.