Premium
Milk transport costs under differing seasonality assumptions for the Irish Dairy Industry
Author(s) -
QUINLAN CARRIE,
KEANE MICHAEL,
O’ CONNOR DECLAN,
SHALLOO LAURENCE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.2011.00734.x
Subject(s) - seasonality , irish , dairy industry , trough (economics) , milk production , agricultural economics , matching (statistics) , environmental science , business , economics , zoology , food science , biology , ecology , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , linguistics , macroeconomics
Milk production in Ireland is seasonal in nature with the milk supply matching grass growth at farm level. The objective of this paper was to estimate the milk transport costs and carbon emissions from milk transport associated with alternative milk supply patterns and output levels in Ireland. A milk transport simulation model was used to simulate three alternative milk supply patterns with peak‐to‐trough month ratios of 5.37:1, 2.71:1 and 8:1. It was found that milk transport costs were not very sensitive to alternative milk supply patterns. Alternative milk supply pattern also had very little effect on carbon emissions from milk transport in Ireland.