The Dynamics of Agricultural Biotechnology Adoption: Lessons from rBST Use in Wisconsin, 1994‐2001

By B. Barham, J. Foltz, D. Jackson‐Smith, S. Moon. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004

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This article exploits panel data from Wisconsin dairy farmers to examine the dynamics of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) adoption and to identify the characteristics that distinguish among nonadopters, disadopters, and early and late adopters. Panel methods are used to control for omitted variables and endogenous regressors that call into question coefficient estimates derived from cross‐section adoption models. The results, however, confirm previous findings that larger farms with complementary feeding technologies are more likely to adopt rBST, nonadopters appear quite unlikely to become adopters, and rBST adoption will remain at rather moderate levels in Wisconsin.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Farmer’s intended and actual adoption of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies (2016, background): “Of the many existing studies many have been based on understanding the adoption or rejection of a single technology such as rBST (Barham et al. 2004; Barham 1996), nitrogen tests and application controls (Barnes et al. 2009; Contant and Korsching 1997) and drip irrigation (Garb and Friedlander…”