A Comparative Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin Adoption across Major U.S. Dairy Regions

Bradford L. Barham, Jeremy Foltz, Sunung Moon and Douglas Jackson-Smith

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2004, vol. 26, issue 1, 32-44

Abstract: Trends and determinants in the adoption of recombinant bovine somatotropin are examined using data from across the United States. The core findings are: (a) moderate adoption rates and relatively small impacts on national milk production; (b) substantial disadoption, farmers who have tried the technology but stopped using it; (c) no significant differences in characteristics between adopters and disadopters; and (d) major differences between nonadopters and farmers who have tried the technology, with the latter group having significantly higher use rates of complementary, productivity-enhancing technologies and larger herd sizes. This last result holds across states with distinctive herd size distributions. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2004
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