Modeling the Environmental and Economic Effects of Dairy Waste Management
ABSTRACT A MATHEMATICAL model was A developed to determine the relationships between economically optimal management practices for New York dairy farms and the water-borne losses of soil, nitrogen, and phosphorus which result from these practices. As a result of a model ap-plication to two typical New York farming units, it was determined that the degree to which the farmer's economic objectives conflict with society's objective of environmental enhancement is very much a function of the soil and land resources avail-able to the farmer.