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Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 6 Logit results for dairy farmer adoption of production systems, 2010 (Standard errors in parenthesis)

From: The adoption of technologies, management practices, and production systems in U.S. milk production

Variable

Units

Milk Cows ≥3 Times/Day

Use of a Dairy Parlor

Control Breeding and/or Calving Season

  

β

Marg Effect

β

Marg Effect

β

Marg Effect

Constant

 

−6.8569*** (1.3940)

 

−2.9046*** (0.7228)

 

1.2252** (0.5979)

 

Farm Structure

       

Cows

No./100

0.1168*** (0.0427)

0.0053** (0.0020)

3.2069*** (0.4211)

0.6800*** (0.0610)

−0.0097 (0.0135)

−0.0017 (0.0020)

Acres

No./100

0.0853*** (0.0261)

0.0039*** (0.0010)

0.0358 (0.0516)

0.0076 (0.0110)

−0.0229 (0.0166)

−0.0041 (0.0030)

Owned

Portion

0.3359*** (0.1154)

0.0152*** (0.0051)

−0.1253 (0.0974)

−0.0266 (0.0207)

−0.3062* (0.1670)

−0.0545* (0.0296)

Specialized

Portion

4.5926*** (1.3418)

0.2084*** (0.0617)

−0.7025 (0.6383)

−0.1490 (0.1336)

−0.2972 (0.4909)

−0.0529 (0.0873)

Organic

0-1

−2.6073*** (0.9107)

−0.0542*** (0.0114)

0.1841 (0.2108)

0.0378 (0.0421)

0.5651*** (0.1937)

0.1126*** (0.0400)

Pasture-based

0-1

−1.2610 (0.7799)

−0.0425** (0.0170)

0.5428** (0.2322)

0.1072*** (0.0418)

0.7396*** (0.2317)

0.1463*** (0.0502)

Farmer Demographics

       

Age

Yrs./10

0.0159 (0.1527)

0.0007 (0.0069)

0.0482 (0.0987)

0.0102 (0.0210)

0.0424 (0.0694)

0.0075 (0.0123)

College

0-1

1.1874*** (0.2842)

0.0838*** (0.0277)

0.0248 (0.3723)

0.0052 (0.0783)

0.2968 (0.2374)

0.0560 (0.0472)

Regions

       

West

0-1

0.0407 (0.4535)

0.0019 (0.0213)

  

0.5220* (0.3079)

0.1048 (0.0668)

Pacific

0-1

−1.1548** (0.5672)

−0.0341*** (0.0119)

  

0.3633 (0.2941)

0.0701 (0.0601)

Southeast

0-1

−2.3947*** (0.5348)

−0.0442*** (0.0087)

  

1.6935*** (0.3116)

0.3884*** (0.0713)

Corn Belt

0-1

−0.8453** (0.3685)

−0.0306** (0.0126)

2.0361*** (0.2759)

0.3186*** (0.0367)

0.4468** (0.2277)

0.0855* (0.0450)

North Plains

0-1

−0.0042 (0.5353)

−0.0002 (0.0242)

  

1.3877*** (0.3852)

0.3141*** (0.0936)

Appalachia

0-1

−0.9534** (0.3915)

−0.0299*** (0.0101)

3.2609*** (0.3809)

0.3231*** (0.0361)

0.9836*** (0.2441)

0.2114*** (0.0561)

Northeast

0-1

−0.5939 (0.3898)

−0.0242 (0.0148)

−0.1933 (0.2540)

−0.0415 (0.0555)

−0.1774 (0.2772)

−0.0309 (0.0472)

South Plains

0-1

−1.5348** (0.7694)

−0.0382*** (0.0115)

  

0.9363*** (0.3637)

0.2015** (0.0870)

Diagnostics

       

Pseudo R2

 

0.2374

 

0.3665

 

0.0569

 
  1. Note: *, **, and *** indicate significance at the P ≤0.10, P ≤0.05, and P ≤0.01 levels, respectively.
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