A sample of 200 farms in the Leningrad Region of Russia is examined 1995-1998 using a stochastic frontier production function. Farms are found to have excess land and capital stock supporting findings in the literature

Using a large sample of farms in Volgograd province over a three year period (1988-1990), farm performance is examined using a stochastic production frontier method. Along with the widespread shortages of labor and machinery known to be endemic to the Soviet agriculture sector, the relative...