AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to investigate and compare the financial impact of @entity66 for different dairy production types in the United Kingdom and France. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Integrated production and financial models for dairy @entity291 were developed and applied to Schmallenberg virus (SBV) disease in a British and French context. The five main production systems that prevail in these two countries were considered. Their respective gross margins measuring the holding's profitability were calculated based on public benchmarking, literature and expert opinion data. A partial budget analysis was performed within each production model to estimate the impact of SBV in the systems modelled. Two disease scenarios were simulated: low impact and high impact. RESULTS: The model gross margin obtained per @entity291 space and year ranged from   1014 to   1484 for the UK and from   1037 to   1890 for France depending on the production system considered. In the UK, the net SBV disease costs in   / @entity291 space/year for an average dairy farm with 100 milking spaces were estimated between   16.3 and   51.4 in the high-impact scenario and between   8.2 and   25.9 in the low-impact scenario. For France, the net SBV disease costs in   / @entity291 space/year ranged from   19.6 to   48.6 in the high-impact scenario and   9.7 to   22.8 in the low-impact scenario, respectively. CONCLUSION: The study illustrates how the combination of production and financial models allows assessing disease impact taking into account differing management and husbandry practices and associated price structures in the dairy sector. It supports decision-making of farmers and veterinarians who are considering disease control measures as it provides an approach to estimate baseline disease impact in common dairy production systems in the UK and France.

Integration of production and financial models to analyse the financial XXXX : a case study of Schmallenberg virus disease on British and French dairy farms.

@entity291 :: ('9913', 'Species') :: ['cattle', 'cow'] @entity66 :: ('MESH:D004194', 'Disease') :: ['Schmallenberg disease']
@entity66 :: (MESH:D004194,Disease) :: ['impact of livestock diseases']
