期刊名称：Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie
印刷版ISSN：1815-1027
出版年度：2013
卷号：22
期号：1
出版社：Facultas
摘要：Ireland's dairy industry is characterised by a seasonal milk production at national level which incurs poor capacity utilisation off peak season in processing plants and a reliance on dairy commodities. In the pro-spect of quota removal, processors seek suitable strategies for maxi-mising the utility of the expanded milk pool. The seasonal strategies examined in this paper necessitated capacity expansion so as to cover supply peaks, resulted in a less profitable product mix and thus ap-peared less attractive than a smooth supply. Yet, to account for sectoral interdependencies, it is proposed to integrate these findings with an analysis of seasonality in milk production and transport
关键词：Milk production seasonality; processor profitability; dairy ;product mix; producer milk price; linear programming
