"This paper estimates the inefficiencies associated with the regionalisation of the milk quota trade. An optimisation model is developed to estimate the economic value of quota. Quota values are aggregated to derive quota sale and purchase curves under two scenarios: first, where quotas can be...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic systems approach that aims to assess the environmental impacts (potential pollutants and resource use) of the production of goods and services. The aim of this study was to develop an LCA model to compare contrasting milk production systems, a seasonal...

Ireland’s dairy sector is characterised by pastoral spring-calving systems and seasonal milk production at national level. This production seasonality initiates various implications at processor level, such as poor plant capacity utilisation off-peak season or a requirement for seasonal...

This paper estimates the inefficiencies associated with the regionalisation of milk quota trade. An optimisation model is developed to estimate the economic value of quota. Quota values are aggregated to derive supply and demand curves under two scenarios; first where quotas can trade nationally...

This paper uses National Farm Survey data to simulate a market for milk quota in Ireland. Price and cost projections are used to estimate the maximum affordable price farmers could pay for milk quota and the minimum price they should accept to sell quota under different policy scenarios assuming...

In December 2009 the Irish Department of Agriculture launched the Dairy Efficiency Programme. The Programme, which is operated through a series of discussion groups, is designed to promote technology transfer to dairy farmers. Drawing on National Farm Survey data from 2009, the purpose of this...

Whilst the adoption of agricultural techniques has received considerable attention in the literature, the ability and willingness of potential adopters to change their current farming system is often overlooked. This paper is concerned with the intention of conventional farmers to convert to...

The adoption and possible abandonment of organic farming has yet received little attention in the literature. As time plays an important role in explaining farming decisions, a dynamic econometric framework, namely duration analysis, is used. The probability of entry to and exit of the organic...