Wang, Tong; Park, Seong C.; Bevers, Stan; Teague, Richard; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 38 (2013) 3
A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier function is estimated for the cow-calf enterprises in the Texas Rolling Plains using Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) data. We find that factors promoting higher herd productivity include machinery investment, pasture-quality improvement, and protein...