U.S. Top Dairies: Benchmarks for Success Mark Stephenson, Ph.D. Cornell Program on Dairy Markets & Policy

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U.S. Top Dairies: Benchmarks for Success Mark Stephenson, Ph.D. Cornell Program on Dairy Markets & Policy

Comparative Advantage

Ten Year Change in Milk Production

A Tale of Three States…

1999 U.S. Population

Movement of Population Centroid

Movement of Production Centroid

Population & Production Movements

“Residual” Milk Production

The Differences are Growing

New York Residual Milk

Wisconsin Residual Milk

California Residual Milk

What Have We Learned?

What are the New Questions?

How to Approach the Questions?

U.S. Top Dairies Program

Descriptive Statistics

Characteristics of Debt

Cost per Hundredweight

What’s the Bottom Line?

Future of Dairying in Your Area

What are the Next Steps?

Descriptive Statistics

What’s the Bottom Line?

Author: Mark Stephenson 

Email: bthomas@agecon.uga.edu

Home Page: http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/agecon/workshops/sdcmain.html

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