@article{Kilcline:236917,
      recid = {236917},
      author = {Kilcline, Kevin and O'Donoghue, Cathal and Hennessy, Thia  and Hynes, Stephen},
      title = {Economic factors affecting concentrate usage on Irish  sheep farms},
      journal = {International Journal of Agricultural Management},
      address = {2014},
      number = {1029-2016-82306},
      pages = {10},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {While comprehensive farm level models for the dairy, beef  and cereal sectors have previously been
developed, to date,  relatively little research has been conducted on the  economics of the sheep sector at
farm level. Nationally  representative farm level data from Teagasc’s National Farm  Survey (NFS) is used
to develop a model examining the  economic factors of concentrate usage on Irish sheep farms  informed by
the current body of literature on pastoral  based production systems research. Results from a 2 step  random
effects panel regression of a demand function for  concentrate use with log linear functional form support
the  established production literature. The demand for  concentrates on Irish sheep farms was found to be
elastic  and thus sensitive to price changes. Farm labour input,  fertiliser application, subscription to an
extension and  research provider and date of lambing were found to be  significantly associated with
concentrate demand on sheep  enterprises. Results from a second model specification  indicate the presence
of spatially heterogeneous effects of  lambing on concentrate demand across regions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236917},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236917},
}