Dairy cattle breeding in terms of organic farming

Bachelor thesis aimed to create a comprehensive set of issues of breeding dairy cattle breeds in terms of organic farming as a literary review. In the first part I described the importance of breeding dairy cattle in organic farming states of dairy cattle in the EU and the Czech Republic (currently in the Czech Republic behaves 224,873 head of cattle, of which 7,402 cows), the different breeds of dairy cattle used in the Czech Republic organic farming, both milk (Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey, Montbeliard) and a dual purpose (Czech pied cattle), as I have announced legislation which are mandatory for organic farmers (Act no. 242/2000 Coll., NR no. 834/2007, NK no. 889/2008). In my work I have summarized the findings of breeding dairy cattle breeds and their uses including non-production functions (grazing and landscape maintenance) technique and technology of the various categories of animals (methods of housing - is the most appropriate free housing with enclosure), milk yields (differences in milk composition in conventional and organic farming) and its control, acquisition and processing of milk and production of dairy products, issues of health and disease (prevention, treatment, mastitis as the biggest cause of economic losses in dairy cows), reproduction (permitted by biotechnological methods, methods of heat detection, methods dimpling). In chapter grazing cattle I have summarized the findings about the effects of cattle grazing on the landscape formation, and also highlighted the impact of grazing on biodiversity and protected plants and animals that are on pasture may occur. In conclusion, I summarized the economy breeding dairy cattle and described the subsidy policy conditions and income subsidies for organic farmers