Milk production costs of dairy cattle farms; a case study from bafra district of Samsun Province, 166 Turkey Gözener, B.; Mollaoğlu, E. Milk production costs of dairy cattle farms; a case study from bafra district of Samsun Province, Turkey Reception of originals: 09/10/2020 Release for publication: 05/05/2021 Bilge Gözener Ph.D.in Agricultural Economics Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics Taşlıçiftlik Campus, 60250 Tokat / TÜRKİYE E-mail:
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[email protected] Abstract This study was carried out to conducting an economic analysis to determine the milk production costs of dairy cattle farms in Bafra district of Samsun province, Turkey. The data used in the study were obtained from the questionnaires conducted with 107 farms selected by simple random sampling method. The number of animals per farm was 39.19 animals and the ratio of dairy cattle in the total cattle number was 21.38%. The mean economic profitability rate of the farms was 4.33%, and financial profitability was 4.16%. The profitability factor of the farms was calculated 19.73%. Total amount of milk produced was 35964.94 L per farm and variable expenses constituted 78.03% of the dairy cattle production costs. The number of current dairy cattle was approximately 21.38 animals per farm and annual milk yield was calculated as 5.938.09 L per cattle. The results of the analysis of farms by groups indicated that average cost of 1 kg milk was 0.38 USD.