[ Up ] [ Current Status ] [ Previous Status ]

Predicting the Effects of Technological and Regulatory Change - 4th Quarterly Status Report

Researchers in the Cornell Program on Dairy Markets and Policy (CPDMP) are studying the effects of regulatory and technological changes on the location, structure, and organization of dairy industry activities in the U.S. Emerging technologies are affecting the spatial and economic organization of the U.S. dairy industry. The relocation and changing demographic characteristics of population, urban pressures on land values, and international initiatives to lower trade barriers for agricultural products have had and will continue to have dramatic impacts on U.S. dairy industry activity. The 1996 Congressionally mandated changes in U.S. domestic dairy policy may also have strong impacts. Using highly disaggregated spatial models of local, regional, national, and international dairy sectors, CPDMP researchers analyze the impacts of these changes on specific geographic units representing milk supply, dairy product consumption, and dairy product processing. With the support of GAMS Development Corporation of Washington, D.C., we have installed the software (CPLEX and MPSGE) needed to generate and solve our large-scale mathematical programming models on our Intel Pentium II computer. We have found that the Pentium II outperforms our RS6000 3BT in terms of speed and simultaneously provides a comfortable NT operating environment.

James E. Pratt, Senior Research Associate, Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics

http://www.cpdmp.cornell.edu

Predicting the Effects of Technological and Regulatory Change Status Report

No Intel grant machines have been installed to date. We hope to receive two dual processor machines this quarter on which we will begin installation of the appropriate software.

Last modified on: 10/08/99