Strategic planning features in dairy cattle

The purpose of the study is to identify the features of strategic planning in the dairy farming industry at the macroregional level. In the course of the study, the features of dairy cattle breeding as a sector of the national economy were revealed, the necessity of differentiating strategic planning according to the levels of strategy management was substantiated. The analysis of approaches to the process of strategic planning in the industry was conducted, the mission of dairy cattle breeding was substantiated, and the strategic goals of the industry were classified at the macroregional level. A review of the regulatory and legal framework governing the strategic development of dairy cattle breeding was carried out, which made it possible to establish that there is no single regulatory document on the strategic development of dairy cattle breeding. The subprogram "Development of dairy cattle breeding", implemented since 2014, has not reached the planned indicative indicators. Thus, the analysis performed al-lows us to conclude that dairy farming as a sector of the national economy has a number of characteristic features due to a number of biological, organizational and economic reasons. These features must be taken into ac-count without fail when developing a mission and strategic goals for the development of the dairy cattle breeding industry at all levels of management. Despite the fact that in the practice of implementing strategic initiatives, the program-target method is most widespread, the analysis of regional pro-grams for the development of livestock breeding revealed that a significant part of regional programs is declarative in nature and does not allow achieving indicative indicators, and some programs were excluded from state programs back in the implementation process. All this indicates that for the effective development of the dairy cattle breeding industry, it is necessary to develop a unified federal program based on the principles of strategic planning given in the Federal Law "On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation" and regional sectoral (departmental) programs.