Incorporating Environmentally Compliant Manure Nutrient Disposal Costs into Least-Cost Livestock Ration Formulation

Joleen Hadrich, Christopher Wolf (cwolf@cornell.edu), J. Roy Black and Stephen B. Harsh

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 01, 14

Abstract: Livestock rations are formulated to minimize feed cost subject to nutritional requirements for a target performance level, which ignores the potentially substantial cost of disposing of nutrients fed in excess of nutritional requirements. We incorporate nutrient disposal costs into a modified least-cost ration formulation model to arrive at a joint least-cost decision that minimizes the sum of feed and net nutrient disposal costs. The method is demonstrated with phosphorus disposal costs on a representative dairy farm. Herd size, land availability and proximity, crop rotation, and initial soil phosphorus content are shown to be important in determining phosphorus disposal costs.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.45525

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