A harmonised cross-border panel of individual dairy farm accounts

A harmonised cross-border panel of individual dairy farm accounts: full cost-of-production builds per farm and per kg ECM — milk, animal and other returns, direct payments, break-even including support, entrepreneur's profit — with a complete cost decomposition (purchased feed, home-grown feed, young stock, other cow costs, labour, land, buildings and installations, production rights, co-operative shares, direct costs, depreciation, calculated costs), plus technical indicators (ECM yield per cow, fat and protein, concentrate input, culling rate, land and labour productivity, dairy land economics), expressed both per kg and per cow and benchmarked against an EDF EU Conventional baseline; complemented by a monthly International Milk Price Comparison of farm-gate prices across Europe

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Industry: Agricultural Products & ServicesFinancial Exchanges & Data
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Format: Standardised tabular farm-account records normalised into a common chart of accounts and currency (euros, per kg ECM and per cow), delivered as national-branch PDF profiles and through the CoP Benchmark web application with per-country time series; the milk-price comparison is issued as a recurring monthly tabular comparison
Volume: ~355 farm account records per annual CoP cycle, decomposing into roughly 20,000-30,000 standardised cost and return line items per cycle, plus 21-farm Swedish and comparable multi-country time series reaching to ~2021, plus a monthly multi-country farm-gate price series — modest in rows but very high in field depth and country coverage
Users: ~450-700 member farms and advisory bodies across 27+ countries (association states over 450 members in more than 27 countries; branches cited at ~60 Sweden, ~60 Netherlands, ~40 Germany, ~25 Denmark, ~25 UK, ~25 Finland, plus a forming US group), of which 355 farms contributed the CoP 2024 economic sample; roughly 70% of members must be active dairy farmers
History: 35 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — 2024 CoP cycle published with later-dated country profiles, series extended through the 2024 time-series column, a congress already seeded for 2027 with its own secretariat address, and an active new-branch build-out in the United States
Launched: 1990 for the predecessor European Dairy Farmers Club, founded in Stoneleigh, UK out of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) and the Thünen Institute; 26 June 2003 for the current registered association EDF e.V. (established in Wałbrzych, Poland); the CoP Benchmark web application and the International Milk Price Comparison project followed later
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