This paper presents empirical measures of the efficiency of the New York family dairy farm over its life cycle. The … increase and then decrease in farm efficiency with age is only minor. Factors not correlated with age are much more important … in determining efficiency. Exiting farmers who appear not to have children to take over the family farm are managing and …

common approach is to use observable farm characteristics to split the sample into several groups and subsequently estimate … the sample using dairy farm data in the application. Latent class separation appears to be a superior method of separating …

estimated using an output distance function, with New York dairy farm level data. Differential impacts of inputs on component …

an individual farm’s profit and minimizing disease elimination periods. Our results show that any Johne’s disease control …