This work was carried out to development a alternative methodology for the bioeconomic evaluation of feeding strategies for dairy herds and evaluate the physical productivity and the bioeconomic efficiency of feeding systems for dairy cows when different feeding strategies forages based are used for cows of five levels of milk yield. The computational platform was developed with the programs CNCPS v5.0 and electronic spreadsheets of Microsoft Excell®, in way to simulate the production and demands of nutrients of a complete lactation for cows of different milk yield levels. Using the alternative methodology "Adjusts for the Level of Capital", were evaluated different levels of concentrate and capital expense with feeding per area unit and estimate regression equations of productivity (PROD/ha) and income over feed costs (RMCA/ha0 per hectare, in function of these levels. This methodology did not permit the occurrance of the use the different levels of input and capital per unit of area, specifically when are evaluated different feeding strategies. The obtained results showed differences in the bioeconomics evaluations carry out by the "Adjusts for the Level of Capital" methodology in relation to "Traditional" methodology. In general, mainly in the highest levels of use of capital per area, the feeding strategies based on forages of better quality showed the best results in PROD/ha and RMCA/ha. However, in the levels of smaller levels of use of capital per area, the feeding strategies based on forages of high productivity per hectare showed the better results in analyzed variables.
bioeconomic efficiency; dairy cattle; simulation
