Editor's choice Component supply responses in dairy production

Daniel Muluwork Atsbeha, Dadi Kristofersson and Kyrre Rickertsen

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2016, vol. 43, issue 2, 193-215

Abstract: Under multiple component pricing schemes, the price of milk depends on its content of components such as fat, protein and lactose. A theoretical model of component supply under tradable quota regime is developed. A system of output supply and input demand equations is then derived and estimated for a panel of Icelandic dairy farms. Results show that milk component supply responds to price incentives in the short-run despite rigidities in component production technology. The own-price supply elasticities of fat and protein are 0.26 and 0.23 in the quota milk market and 0.02 and 0.25 in the surplus milk market, respectively.

Date: 2016
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