MANAGING AGRICULTURAL NITRATE CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER: IMPACTS OF UNCERTAINTY ON POLICY FORMULATION

John M. Halstead, Sandra S. Batie, Daniel Taylor, Conrad D. Heatwole, Penelope L. Diebel and Randall Kramer

No 270524, 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Unlike point-source contaminants, agricultural contaminants of ground water are often stochastic in nature •. Chance constrained programming model results for a representative Virginia dairy farm demonstrate that when the stochastic nature of nitrate loading to ground water is considered, costs of policy implementation increase substantially over simply using deterministic constraints.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 1989-07-30
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270524

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