The economic and environmental impacts of precision agriculture and interactions with agro-environmental policy

被引:94
作者
Schieffer, J. [1 ]
Dillon, C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Dept Agr Econ, Lexington, KY 40546 USA
关键词
Whole-farm modeling; Agro-environmental policy; Auto-steer; Variable rate application; Automatic section control; CORN YIELD RESPONSE; NITROGEN; CHOICE;
D O I
10.1007/s11119-014-9382-5
中图分类号
S [农业科学];
学科分类号
082806 [农业信息与电气工程];
摘要
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.
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页数:16
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