CCOD Agric/Bio Issue 9/21/90, The land-grant extension system has long been known as the best educational network in the world. Extension home economists are focusing much of their efforts in food, nutrition and health programming. Extension personnel are collaborating with other agricultural health professionals in programs designed to improve the nutritional quality of diets consumed by individuals in the United States. (original)
Kuchler, Fred (author), Larson, Bruce A. (author), and Resources and Technology Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Resources and Technology Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA: Columbus, OH : Ohio State University
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05205
Economic simulation studies of the effects of bovine growth hormone (bGH) on the dairy industry usually assume that producers will have the incentive to adopt bGH and that aggregate milk supply will increase. Based on the description of per-cow milk yield response to bovine growth hormone (bGH), a short-run model of milk production is developed to analyze the farm-level incentives to adopt bGH. This analysis emphasizes that the incentives to adopt a new technology greatly depend on how it alters the existing production environment. Because higher levels of energy are needed in the cow to attain greater levels of production made possible with bGH, those farmers who can most easily and inexpensively expand energy levels in the cow will be most likely to adopt. The model identifies: (1) why farmers may not have the incentive to adopt the new technology; and (2) if farmers adopt bGH, they may not have the economic incentive to produce at the levels obtained in test studies.
Boersma, Larry (author), Faulkenberry, G. David (author), Mason, Robert (author), and Mason: Survey Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Boersma: Department of Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Faulkenberry: Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05169
