@article{Nehring:196841, recid = {196841}, author = {Nehring, Richard and hallahan, Charlie}, title = {The Impacts of Off-Farm Income on Farm Efficiency, Scale, and Profitability Rice Farms}, address = {2015-01-15}, number = {1375-2016-109536}, pages = {22}, month = {Jan}, year = {2015}, note = {This study is based on ARMS phase II and COP data supplied by ERS}, abstract = {This paper estimates technical efficiency on rice farms, following a translog stochastic production frontier (SPF) approach and compares the relative performance of farm operator households with and without off-farm wages and salaries. We use 2000, 2006 and 2013 USDA data for rice producing states-identifying different performance measures. Previous studies suggest that off-farm work influences economic performance—by “improving” managerial performance. We find that off-farm income generally boosts scale and technical efficiency on smaller, mid-size and larger operations, and is also consistent with higher farm and household returns. We also find that the number of hours worked off-farm by the operator contributes to a higher technical efficiency on larger typologies.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/196841}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.196841}, }