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- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
- Subject
- Life Sciences; Agriculture; Soil Science & Conservation; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Atmospheric Sciences
- ISSN
- 1385-2256
- eISSN
- 1573-1618
- D.O.I.
- 10.1007/s11119-014-9382-5
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
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.
Journal
Precision Agriculture – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 7, 2014
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