TY - GEN
T1 - Precision agriculture and agro-environmental policy
AU - Schieffer, J.
AU - Dillon, C.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A whole-farm model was used to investigate the effects of precision agriculture adoption on production choices under various agro-environmental policy frameworks. Simulation of a typical grain farm in western Kentucky, USA indicated that adoption of precision agriculture does alter responsiveness to policies based on financial incentives for pollution abatement (e.g. emission taxes). Specifically, those farms were less responsive to financial incentives (i.e. abated less pollution), due to higher marginal abatement costs in the form of forgone profits. Policy-makers targeting pollution reductions from agriculture should take into account the increasing use of precision agriculture techniques and their effects on agro-environmental policy.
AB - A whole-farm model was used to investigate the effects of precision agriculture adoption on production choices under various agro-environmental policy frameworks. Simulation of a typical grain farm in western Kentucky, USA indicated that adoption of precision agriculture does alter responsiveness to policies based on financial incentives for pollution abatement (e.g. emission taxes). Specifically, those farms were less responsive to financial incentives (i.e. abated less pollution), due to higher marginal abatement costs in the form of forgone profits. Policy-makers targeting pollution reductions from agriculture should take into account the increasing use of precision agriculture techniques and their effects on agro-environmental policy.
KW - Agro-environmental policy
KW - Auto-steer
KW - Variable rate application
KW - Whole-farm modeling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893346355
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893346355#tab=citedBy
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893346355
SN - 9789086862245
T3 - Precision Agriculture 2013 - Papers Presented at the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2013
SP - 755
EP - 760
BT - Precision Agriculture 2013 - Papers Presented at the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2013
T2 - 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2013
Y2 - 7 July 2013 through 11 July 2013
ER -