Who is Willing to Pay to Keep Livestock Production Away?

Residents have opposed location of nearby livestock facilities. Illinois residents were asked how much they would be willing to pay (WTP) to stop a dairy from locating near them. Most respondents would not pay. Demographic characteristics (income, education, age, gender, agricultural interest, activism, etc.) were used to evaluate respondents WTP.Livestock Production/Industries,

Economic Impacts Associated With Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rBST) Use

Response to a critical commentary of the authors' original article.Losinger's criticism of our paper pertains to the following key points: the use of national estimates, the functional form employed, making multiple uses of the model, not considering all the costs, and the use of NAHMS data for economic analysis. We briefly address each one below

PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS VS. ECONOMIC FACTORS AS DRIVERS OF PRODUCERS' DECISIONS TO EXPAND OR START A DAIRY

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/13/04.Farm Management,

Investment Analysis of Alternative Dairy Systems under MILC

Three dairy systems, 120-cow grazing, 120-cow conventional, and 600-cow concentrated, were evaluated by internal rate of return (IRR) accounting for the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC). With MILC, the grazing and conventional systems had higher IRRs. Without MILC, the 600-cow dairy had the highest IRR. Results were sensitive to assumptions.Concentrated feeding, conventional, grazing, internal rate of return, Livestock Production/Industries,

ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON THE ILLINOIS ECONOMY OF ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Dairy in Illinois has declined in farm numbers, cows, and value of dairy product. Alternative dairy systems (intensive grazing, traditional, and a concentrated feeding system) were evaluated for their potential to sustain dairy in Illinois. The economic impact of each system on the Illinois economy was evaluated using IMPLAN.Livestock Production/Industries,

PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS REGARDING GROWTH OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN ILLINOIS

Community opposition to dairies has altered location decisions by milk producers. Our objective was to identify residents' perceptions towards dairy by individual and community characteristics. A mail survey of residents of dairy counties and non-dairy counties was conducted. Dairy county residents were more willing to live close to a dairy.Livestock Production/Industries,

Relativistic MHD with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

This paper presents a new computer code to solve the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations using distributed parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The fluid equations are solved using a finite difference Convex ENO method (CENO) in 3+1 dimensions, and the AMR is Berger-Oliger. Hyperbolic divergence cleaning is used to control the $\nabla\cdot {\bf B}=0$ constraint. We present results from three flat space tests, and examine the accretion of a fluid onto a Schwarzschild black hole, reproducing the Michel solution. The AMR simulations substantially improve performance while reproducing the resolution equivalent unigrid simulation results. Finally, we discuss strong scaling results for parallel unigrid and AMR runs.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figures, 3 table

Economic impacts associated with bovine somatotropin (BST) use based on survey of US dairy herds

Based on a 1996 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey of 1,178 dairy producers and a milk price of $13 per hundredweight (cwt), optimal recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) use would be 73 percent of cows. Such a rate would increase herdlevel milk production by 2,983 pounds per cow and herd-level net returns by$126 per cow.Includes bibliographical reference

Estimation of Aggregate U.S. Demands for Fertilizer, Pesticides, and Other Inputs: A Model for Policy Analysis

The method often proposed to meet environmental goals such as water quality improvement is input restriction, such as reduced fertilizer or pesticide use. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are potentially valuable tools to analyze the economic impact of such programs. However, to be useful, such models must approximate reality in the way they deal with input substitution. This report presents elasticity estimates that are consistent both with data on input use and with the assumptions of commonly used CGE models. The report describes the estimation of elasticities of substitution among nine outputs and six inputs, including pesticide and fertilizer. A nested production structure is assumed. The nesting structure employed allows the effects of price changes in agricultural inputs to be broken into stages. An effective 100 percent charge on pesticides goes further toward reducing its use (-17.46 percent) than does a lO-percent charge on fertilizer use (-1.0 percent). However, most of the effect on pesticide use (99 percent) occurs in the bottom nest, while the greatest effect on fertilizer (63 percent) occurs in the higher nests. The report ends with a partial equilibrium analysis of a IO-percent fertilizer charge and a 10-percent pesticide charge

Agrichemical Reduction Policy: Its Effect on Income and Income Distribution

When farm chemical use is restricted, gross farm income rises, but net income may fall. A 10-sector applied general equilibrium model was used to arrive at this assessment. Compared are a chemical use tax, an input restriction on chemicals, and a farm sales restriction imposed on input suppliers. The tax and sales restrictions reduce net income because of rising costs, while the input restriction holds the potential for raising net farm income