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| Title: | Economics and Productivity of Organic versus Non-organic Dairy Farms in the United States |
| Authors: | Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Nehring, Richard F.
Hallahan, Charles B.
Morrison Paul, Catherine J.
Sandretto, Carmen L. |
| Keywords: | organic dairy production
input distance
function
technical efficiency |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Technical and scale efficiencies are
estimated for organic and non-organic dairy farms in the
United States using an input distance function approach. A
multinomial logit analysis is used to categorize the farms by
technology. Large conventional farms outperformed smaller
farms in most technology / organic / non-organic categories.
There was high variability in net returns among the organics
so that they did not differ significantly from the large
conventional farms. The largest conventional non-organic
operations and conventional organic operations tended to have
the higher technical efficiencies. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44415 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 11 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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