Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 46-61 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Precision Agriculture |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Keywords
- Agro-environmental policy
- Auto-steer
- Automatic section control
- Variable rate application
- Whole-farm modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences