Stefanides, Zdenko; Tauer, Loren W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1998
The empirical impact of rBST was measured for 211 dairy farms using 1993-95 data. Farms applying rBST on roughly half of their herds saw, on average, a net increase of about 1,300 pounds of milk per cow per year. The impact on profits, was, however, not statistically different from zero.