@article{Niskanen:200996,
      recid = {200996},
      author = {Niskanen, Olli and Heikkilä, Anna-Maija},
      title = {The Impact of Parcel Structure on the Efficiency of  Finnish Dairy Farms},
      journal = {Agricultural and Resource Economics Review},
      address = {2015-04},
      number = {1203-2016-95581},
      pages = {13},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {In Finland, expanding dairy farms often face the problem  of additional fields being geographically distant and only  available as small parcels. We develop a stochastic  production frontier model to estimate the technical  efficiency of Finnish dairy farms and simulate the effect  of parcel distance and parcel size on the efficiency of an  average farm for 2000 through 2009. The overall development  of technical efficiency is positive during the study period  but increases in distance and decreases in parcel size both  significantly reduce farm efficiency. Therefore, efforts to  improve the parcel structure are justified.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/200996},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.200996},
}