US swine production has undergone significant structural change in the last two decades, reflecting increasing size and specialization (Key and McBride; Key). In particular, the widespread use of contracting has enabled individual producers to grow by specializing in a single phase of production....

Improving farm productivity is often touted as essential for the future prospects of Australian agriculture, particularly for the export-oriented broadacre farm sector. This paper draws on farm panel data for the period 2002 to 2011. The annual components of productivity of the same group of 223...

Modellszámításaink alapján megállapítható, hogy a mezőgazdasági üzemek szerkezetváltozása, az üzemszelekció a csatlakozás utáni első évben sem fejeződött be, sőt előrejelzéseink alapján a következő egy-két évben további 3 ezer árutermelő mezőgazdasági...

This paper examined the relationship between overall inefficiency and farm characteristics such as farm size, years of farm experience, percent of time devoted to farming, educational level, record keeping system, percent acres owned, organizational structure, and farm type. Overall inefficiency...

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The study was conducted during 2008-2009 to estimate the farm-size-specific technical efficiency of rice growers. The technical efficiency scores were estimated using stochastic production frontiers. The large farms received the highest yield (4772.83 kg) per hectare while marginal farms...

Macedonian vegetable farms face big challenge in decision making to improve their production plans. To increase economic efficiency, different tools could be applied that beside natural conditions, resource allocation, technical and technological conditions, consider also economic viewpoint. In...

In the article the problem of diversifying the efficiency of the tangible and intangible resources of farm businesses as the way to achieving the good position on the EU and Word food market were presented. The role of relatively new resource was also emphasized. This new resource is the...

The aim of the study was to analyze the changes in the Dutch floriculture in the years 2000-2011, which help in defining the future of Polish floriculture. The changes in land use in Dutch floriculture sector, as well as in particular branches have been studied. The total acreage, number of...

The aim of this article is to present the problems of cost competitiveness of Polish dairy farms and selected European countries. Comparisons were used to study IFCN and Agricultural Census 2010. As can be seen from the analysis, the majority of farms in Poland are uncompetitive in terms of cost...