TY - JOUR
T1 - The economic and environmental impacts of precision agriculture and interactions with agro-environmental policy
AU - Schieffer, J.
AU - Dillon, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - A whole-farm model was used to investigate the interacting effects of precision agriculture technology and agro-environmental policy on the production choices of a representative grain farm. Although some precision agriculture technologies did increase efficiency of resource use, they also decreased the effectiveness of policy, especially policies that rely on economic incentives (e.g., emission taxes). Precision agriculture can lead to higher marginal abatement costs in the form of forgone profits, decreasing producers’ responsiveness to those policies. Policy-makers targeting pollution reductions from agriculture should take into account the increasing use of precision agriculture techniques and their varying effects on agro-environmental policy.
AB - A whole-farm model was used to investigate the interacting effects of precision agriculture technology and agro-environmental policy on the production choices of a representative grain farm. Although some precision agriculture technologies did increase efficiency of resource use, they also decreased the effectiveness of policy, especially policies that rely on economic incentives (e.g., emission taxes). Precision agriculture can lead to higher marginal abatement costs in the form of forgone profits, decreasing producers’ responsiveness to those policies. Policy-makers targeting pollution reductions from agriculture should take into account the increasing use of precision agriculture techniques and their varying effects on agro-environmental policy.
KW - Agro-environmental policy
KW - Auto-steer
KW - Automatic section control
KW - Variable rate application
KW - Whole-farm modeling
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U2 - 10.1007/s11119-014-9382-5
DO - 10.1007/s11119-014-9382-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921936105
SN - 1385-2256
VL - 16
SP - 46
EP - 61
JO - Precision Agriculture
JF - Precision Agriculture
IS - 1
ER -