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Importance of Cost Offsets for Dairy Farms Meeting a Nutrient Application Standard

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Marc Ribaudo  and
Jean Agapoff
Marc Ribaudo
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Jean Agapoff
Affiliation:
Farm Services Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires concentrated animal feeding operations to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan. Changes in manure management to meet nutrient application standards will generally increase production costs. Some of these costs can be offset by savings from replacing commercial fertilizer with manure nutrients, and through financial assistance programs such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). A manure application cost model was used to examine the costs to confined dairy farms of meeting nutrient application standards, and the ability of fertilizer offsets and EQIP to reduce these costs.

Keywords

animal feeding operationsEnvironmental Quality Incentive Programdairymanure nutrients
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Contributed Papers
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , October 2005 , pp. 173 - 184
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Copyright © 2005 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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