Factors leading to the implementation of beneficial management practices for manure management on Canadian hog operations

This paper uses a logistic regression model and Statistics Canada data from the 2001 Farm Environmental Management Survey and the 2001 Census of Agriculture to determine the primary factors affecting the implementation of BMPs for manure management by hog producers. [...] The goal is to model the likeliness of the decision to implement BMPs on the explanatory variables (farm and operator characteristics). [...] Quebec was set as the reference category because of the relatively stringent standards for the operation of livestock farms and manure management enforced in the province4. [...] Two variables were used to capture the effect of the regional concentration of livestock on the implementation of BMPs. [...] The first test (overall model) rejects the null hypothesis that the probability of implementing BMPs is constant and at a value of 0, 0.5 or 1. The null hypothesis that none of the explanatory variables are related to BMPs (model minus the intercept) is also rejected.