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The Adoption Of Modern Dairy Practices
Author(s) -
WHITE W. JAMES
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1968.tb02411.x
Subject(s) - milking , agricultural science , business , investment (military) , dairy farming , agricultural economics , milk production , zoology , geography , economics , environmental science , forestry , politics , political science , law , biology
The replies of more than 76,000 Canadian manufacturing milk and cream producers, to a mail questionnaire, were analyzed to determine the level of adoption of the following six modern dairy practices: (1) the use of production records, (2) the use of artificial insemination, (3) a milking machine, (4) a pipeline milker, (5) a bulk tank, and (6) a can cooler. The general level of use of these practices, with the exception of a milking machine, was found to be quite low in all parts of the country. Less than one‐third of the respondents have a milking machine and either a can cooler or a bulk tank. The correlation between each of the six practices and seven farm characteristics indicate that the adoption of modern dairy practices is influenced by the number of cows milking, the share of income received from dairy sales, the type of market to which the milk is sold, investment in land and buildings and the age of the farm operator .