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Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Pascal L. Ghazalian ,
Bruno Larue  and
Gale E. West
Pascal L. Ghazalian
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Bruno Larue
Affiliation:
Center for Research on the Economics of Agri-Food (CREA) and Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Gale E. West
Affiliation:
CREA and Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Abstract

This study investigates the determinants affecting producers' adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm residence are found to have significant effects on the adoption of some BMPs. Farms with larger animal production are more apt to implement manure management practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Also, farms with larger cultivated acres are more inclined to implement herbicide control practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Belonging to an agro-environment club has a positive impact for most BMPs.

Keywords

adoptionBayesian analysisbest management practicespriorsrunoffwater qualityQ12Q25C11
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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , December 2009 , pp. 663 - 682
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2009

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