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ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF DAIRY FARMS WITH INTENSIVE AND GRAZING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Popovic, Rade - Agroekonomski Odsek, Poljoprivredni Fakultet - 2013
allows measurement of whole farm efficiency and gives benchmarks for further farm analysis. DEA compare levels of input and … outputs for a given dairy farm with all other analysed dairy farms, determining levels of efficiency for all farms with … production system one farm showed efficiency. This indicates that some other input variables like farmer’s management …
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SCALE ECONOMIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COW-CALF PRODUCTION
Qushim, Berdikul; Gillespie, Jeffrey M.; Nehring, Richard F. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
of southeastern U.S. cow-calf farms. We describe and compare cow-calf operations by size and farm resource region and …
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Agricultural Growth in India: Examining the Post-Green Revolution Transition
Rada, Nicholas E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
by the Green Revolution. Our purpose is to examine the productivity growth implications of farmers’ decisions to … productivity accounts and evaluate total factor productivity (TFP) growth, from 1980 to 2008, at the national, regional, and state …
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Impact of Source and Quality on the Demand for Rice Imported in Cote d’Ivoire
Coulibaly, Jeanne Y. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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Economics of Genotypic Selection: The Role of Prediction Accuracy and Relative Genotyping Costs
Rajsic, Predrag; Weersink, Alfons; Navabi, Alireza; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
We provide a general framework for quantifying the effects of genotypic selection prediction accuracy and varying cost ratios of phenotyping to genotyping on the economic performance of genotypic selection relative to traditional phenotypic selection. Economic performance is measured using...
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Market concentration and productivity in the United States corn sector: 2002-2009
Nolan, Elizabeth; Santos, Paulo; Shi, Guanming - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
There is a large literature which investigates the relationship between market concentration and innovation. It is difficult to find a suitable measure for innovative output. We use a rich dataset based on university trials of corn hybrids to estimate, using fixed effects, a production function....
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How much drought is ‘just right’?Spatial Differences in ‘Optimal Drought Severity’ for Drought Tolerant Maize
Lybbert, Travis J.; Foltz, Jeremy D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
The potential of agricultural biotechnology to produce seed traits that reduce yield risk generates widespread excitement. Hopes are high that in an era of tightening water constraints and climate change drought tolerant (DT) crop varieties will stabilize food production and allow for greater...
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State Productivity Growth: Catching Up and the Business Cycle
Ball, V. Eldon; San Juan, Carlos; Ulloa, Camilo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
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Trends in total factor productivity of five key Commonwealth managed fisheries
Stephan, Mary - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
The total factor productivity indexes of five key Commonwealth fisheries have been developed using the Fisher index and … stocks. In trend terms, productivity increased over the last decade in most Commonwealth fisheries analysed. These increases … to market conditions. Changes in productivity can provide information regarding the response of fishing fleets to policy …
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Measuring Groundwater Irrigation Efficiency in Pakistan: A DEA Approach Using the Sub-vector and Slack-based Models
Watto, Muhammad Arif; Mugera, Amin William - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013
We estimate the efficiency of groundwater use in cotton production in the Punjab province of Pakistan. We use a survey data of 189 cotton producers comprising 98 tube-well owners and 91 water buyers in order to get the differential impact of tube-well ownership on groundwater use efficiency. We...
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