ABSTRACT – Economic weights for important economic characteristics in the “Milk Production System” of the Santa Rita Experimental Farm, EPAMIG, located in the municipality of Prudente de Moraes, MG were calculated. The economic weights were defined as the partial derivative of profit with respect to each trait, in method (1), and as the partial derivative of the receipts/cost ratio, in method (2), evaluated at the mean value of all other traits. The economic weights, expressed in milk equivalents, for milk […]