VALUE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN DAIRY FARMING: THE CASE OF ROBOTIC MILKING

Hans Andersson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Sven Brundin and Sone Ekman

No 22006, 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The economic value of the innovation robotic milking systems (AMS) is examined for Swedish dairy operations. A mixed integer mathematical programming model, considering crops, calving distribution, seasonality and capacity constraints of the AMS system, is developed. The marginal value of increasing the capacity of the AMS unit is found to amount to 40-60% of the milk revenues per cow.

Keywords: Livestock; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22006

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