Feed Substitution for adopting mitigation measures to reduce N2O Emission in Irish Dairy and Cattle Farming

Carlos Alberto Francisco-Cruz, Dr. Cathal Buckley and Dr. James Breen

No 355320, Agricultural Economics Society (AES) 98th Annual Conference, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, March 18-20, 2024 from Agricultural Economics Society (AES)

Abstract: This paper aims to estimate the capacity to substitute concentrate feed for home-produced feed by adopting two specific mitigation strategies to reduce Nitrous Oxide (N2O) emissions in the agriculture sector: (i) Low Emissions Slurry Spreading (LESS) and (ii) applying protected urea instead of CAN fertiliser. A translog cost function is estimated to obtain the price and cross-price elasticities of demand for concentrate and home-produced feed. To achieve our aim, we use the Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS) from 2014 to 2021, which contains detailed information on agricultural activity. Furthermore, farms are categorised into four groups based on their environmental characteristics to show how environmental conditions influence farmers' decision-making processes. Our results show a marginal change in the purchase of concentrates due to adopting the two mitigation measures analysed, which is reflected in an increase in cross-price elasticity. However, these results are conditioned to the biophysical conditions of the farm soils.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.355320

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