Communicative farm-specific diagnosis of potential simultaneous savings in costs and natural resource demand of feed on dairy farms Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Feed plays a key role for dairy farmers to produce in an environmentally sustainable and competitive way. It determines both costs and natural resource demand. In this paper, we investigated whether and how dairy farms could simultaneously reduce feed costs and overall natural resource use in the feed supply chain without reducing farm revenues. We applied the frontier method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on a data sample of specialized dairy ...