Featherstone, Allen M.; Langemeier, Michael R.; Ismet, … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 29 (1997) 01
Competitive pressures in the cow-calf sector increased in 1995 because of a decline of 27% in calf prices. Technical, allocative, and scale efficiency measures were used to examine the competitiveness of a sample of Kansas beef cow farms. On average, the farms were 78% technically efficient, 81%...