@article{Letort:338908,
      recid = {338908},
      author = {Letort, Elodie and Dupraz, P},
      title = {Animal feed as a lever to reduce methane emissions: a  micro-econometric approach applied to French dairy farms},
      address = {2023-11-22},
      number = {913-2023-1258},
      series = {Working Paper SMART N°23-03},
      pages = {33 p.},
      month = {Nov},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {The objective of this study is to simulate a payment for  environmental services scheme to reduce enteric methane  emissions per litre of milk by incentivizing farmers to  modify the diet of dairy cows. We estimated a milk yield  function by distinguishing between types of fodder and  concentrate feeds. Methane emissions were calculated from  the technical relationship between different feed sources  and milk productivity. The heterogeneity of the production  conditions faced by the farmers was identified from a  mixture model estimated by the EM algorithm. The results  show that, with the introduction of the payment for  environmental services, farmers reduce their methane  emissions per litre of milk the more their production  conditions, as reflected by the quality of their forage,  are good.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338908},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338908},
}