Table 1.
Sustainability performance of Irish dairy farms, by technology adoption status.
| Outcome variable | Non-adopters (n = 151) |
Adopters (n = 145) |
All farmers (n = 296) |
t-test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dairy gross margin per cow (€ / cow) |
1,004.62 (278.38) |
1,132.78 (264.52) |
1,067.40 (278.71) |
−4.06*** |
| Milk yield per cow (l / cow) |
5,155.42 (956.45) |
5,803.22 (894.36) |
5,472.76 (980.22) |
−6.01*** |
| Agricultural GHG emissions per kg of output (kg of CO2e / kg of FPCM) |
1.20 (0.24) |
1.12 (0.19) |
1.16 (0.22) |
3.37*** |
| BTSCC (‘000 cells / ml) |
192.16 (72.60) |
156.30 (56.37) |
174.59 (67.48) |
4.73*** |
Notes: Means and standard deviations in parentheses.
***, **, and * significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively.