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Variation in Environmental Regulations in California and Effects on Dairy Location

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  • Sneeringer, Stacy
  • Hogle, Regina

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In recent decades, urban encroachment and increasing environmental regulation have impacted California's dairy industry. A complicated set of environmental legislation affects dairies in the state, and can differ depending on location, creating the possibility for within-state pollution havens. This article details the regional, state, and federal environmental regulation of California's dairy industry, and examines data to see if it matches a hypothesis of regulation affecting dairy location. Using county-year data, we show evidence of changing dairy location within the state matching times of local legislative action. The Central Valley gained production, while the more regulated and urban-affected Los Angeles area lost. Large dairies have increased by 150 percent in the Central Valley, even as the number of small farms in the region declined by 40 percent. More rigorous analysis is necessary to discern the relative impacts of land prices and regulation on dairy location.

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  • Sneeringer, Stacy & Hogle, Regina, 2008. "Variation in Environmental Regulations in California and Effects on Dairy Location," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(2), pages 133-146, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:agrerw:v:37:y:2008:i:02:p:133-146_00
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    1. Sneeringer, Stacy E., 2011. "Effects of Environmental Regulation and Urban Encroachment on California’s Dairy Structure," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 36(3), pages 1-25.
    2. Njuki, Eric & Bravo-Ureta, Boris B., 2014. "A Bayesian Approach to Analyzing the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulation in U.S. Dairy Farming," Working Paper series 290098, University of Connecticut, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy.
    3. Mosnier, Claire & Wieck, Christine, "undated". "Determinants of spatial dynamics of dairy production: a review," Discussion Papers 162896, University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics.

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