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Predicting the Effects of Technological and Regulatory Change

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 such as recombinant bovine somatotropin, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, super-critical extraction, and newly designed transport vehicles are affecting the spatial and economic organization of the U.S. dairy industry. Additionally, the relocation of population and changing demographic characteristics, as well as urban pressures on land values, have forced relocation of milk production and processing activities. New international initiatives to lower trade barriers (NAFTA and GATT) will have dramatic impacts on dairy industry activity, as could the 1996 Congressionally mandated changes in U.S. domestic dairy policy. Using highly disaggregated spatial models of local, regional, national, and international dairy sectors, CPDMP researchers analyze the impacts of changes in technology and regulatory environments on specific geographic units representing milk supply, dairy product consumption, and dairy product processing. Since these large-scale problems have previously required supercomputers such as the IBM SP2, we feel that the CPDMP is particularly well suited to provide Intel with immediate, quantitative feedback and evaluation on the relative performance of the proposed hardware.

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Last modified on: 10/05/99