Economics of Size in Dairy Farm Adjustment to Water Quality Constraints

Adjustment of small, medium, and large Vermont dairy farms to successively tighter constraints on phosphorus loss was modeled using linear programming. Aggregate response to phosphorus control was estimated for an area from farm marginal costs. Medium and large farms have lower costs than small farms and could achieve higher levels of phosphorus reduction at the same proportional loss of income.

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Year of publication:	1982-07
Authors:	Heimlich, Ralph E.
Institutions:	Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Subject:	Dairy \| manure management \| phosphorus \| economics of size \| water quality \| Environmental Economics and Policy \| Farm Management \| Land Economics/Use

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Staff Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Applied Economics and Management>Staff Papers Number 183956
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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