Tauer, Loren W. - In: Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 11 (1982) 2:
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 …