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The Adoption of Best-Management Practices by Louisiana Dairy Producers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Noro C. Rahelizatovo  and
Jeffrey M. Gillespie
Noro C. Rahelizatovo
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Jeffrey M. Gillespie
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
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Abstract

This study examines the adoption of best-management practices (BMPs) in terms of the total number of practices implemented up to a certain period, using count data analysis. Poisson and negative binomial regressions were used to examine the likely determinants of producers' decisions to adopt greater numbers of technologies, and the specific case of dairy producers' adoption of BMPs was explored. Our results emphasize the significant effect of producers' awareness of the efforts to control non-point source pollution, information about BMPs, farm size, producer's educational attainment, and risk aversion on the number of BMPs adopted.

Keywords

Best management practices (BMP)count data analysisdairy industrynegative binomial regressionPoisson regressionQ12Q16
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , April 2004 , pp. 229 - 240
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2004

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